Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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With 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.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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?
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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