And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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