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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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