One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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