How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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