The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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