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?
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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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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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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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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