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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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However, 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.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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