Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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