Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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