Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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