On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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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