Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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