Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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