Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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 is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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