Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
MATTHEW ARNOLD






