Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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