The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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