Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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?
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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