And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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