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Matthew Arnold quotes: But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth. But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from ... Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from ...
Matthew Arnold quotes: Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Matthew Arnold quotes: But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Matthew Arnold quotes: Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Matthew Arnold quotes: That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.
Matthew Arnold quotes: 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. 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.
Matthew Arnold quotes: History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Matthew Arnold quotes: Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall. Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.
Matthew Arnold quotes: All the live murmur of a summer's day. All the live murmur of a summer's day.
Matthew Arnold quotes: O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
Matthew Arnold quotes: Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
Matthew Arnold quotes: How many mindsalmost all the great oneswere formed in secrecy and solitude! How many minds
almost all the great ones
were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Matthew Arnold quotes: What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
Matthew Arnold quotes: All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates. All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Art still has truth. Take refuge there. Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
Matthew Arnold quotes: And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night. And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?
Matthew Arnold quotes: The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold quotes: They ... who awaitNo gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. They ... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness. The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Choose equality. Choose equality.
Matthew Arnold quotes: And we forget because we must And we forget because we must
Matthew Arnold quotes: The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ...
Matthew Arnold quotes: But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus. But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn? Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
Matthew Arnold quotes: Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold quotes: And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening ... And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening ...
Matthew Arnold quotes: The kings of modern thought are dumb. The kings of modern thought are dumb.
Matthew Arnold quotes: There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail." There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
Matthew Arnold quotes: Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light. Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow. Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .
Matthew Arnold quotes: Sanity that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. Sanity
that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends; Nature and man can never be fast friends. Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave! Man must begin, know this, where Nature ends; Nature and man can never be fast friends. Fool, if thou canst not pass her, rest her slave!
Matthew Arnold quotes: He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
Matthew Arnold quotes: I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Saw life steadily and saw it whole. Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat. Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life. Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
Matthew Arnold quotes: Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair. Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
Matthew Arnold quotes: I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture. I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
Matthew Arnold quotes: For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear. The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
Matthew Arnold quotes: All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Journalism is literature in a hurry. Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours. Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Matthew Arnold quotes: To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it. To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold quotes: 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. 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 Arnold quotes: Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
Matthew Arnold quotes: We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.
Matthew Arnold quotes: For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire. For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye. Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
Matthew Arnold quotes: To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true. To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
Matthew Arnold quotes: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
Matthew Arnold quotes: 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! 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!
Matthew Arnold quotes: Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
Matthew Arnold quotes: Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
Matthew Arnold quotes: What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.
Matthew Arnold quotes: The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
Matthew Arnold quotes: 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. 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.
Matthew Arnold quotes: It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Matthew Arnold quotes: 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. 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.
Matthew Arnold quotes: Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
Matthew Arnold quotes: To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

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