Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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