Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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