One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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