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.
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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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