One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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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Now 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.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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