They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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I 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.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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