Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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