Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLD