Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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