Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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