Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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