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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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