And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHowever, 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Tis 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.
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