Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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