All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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If 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.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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