Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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 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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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?
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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