Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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