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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime 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?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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I 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.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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