The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWhoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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