Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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