Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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.
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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 looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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