Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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Is 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?
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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