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.
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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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