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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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