Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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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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