On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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For 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.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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