To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSanity — 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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