Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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