Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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