Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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 brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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