The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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