For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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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.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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