Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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