"The will is free; Strong is the soul,……" — Matthew Arnold
"The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!"
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold has 144 quotes on this site.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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More Bards Quotes
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
— John Keats
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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?
— James Weldon Johnson
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for…
— Patti Smith
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp…
— Charles Dickens
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move!…
— William Blake
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Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever…
— Aphra Behn
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I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I…
— William Shakespeare
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested.…
— Jack Prelutsky
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I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through…
— Eban Goodstein
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Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do…
— Alexander MacLaren
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