France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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