Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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