Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHowever, 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.
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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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