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?
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Whoever 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.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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