Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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