Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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