All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor 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 ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD