This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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