Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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