Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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