One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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