All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFrance, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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