Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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