A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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If 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.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLD