Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLD