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 ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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