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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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