Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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