Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLD