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Matthew Arnold Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
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.
All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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?
Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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."
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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.
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.
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.
Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .
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.
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.
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!
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.
For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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.
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name.
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
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.
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
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!
but 'tis not true!
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.
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.
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.
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.