Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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