Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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