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 ARNOLDNature’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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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