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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
— Matthew Arnold
Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
— Matthew Arnold
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
— Matthew Arnold
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
— Matthew Arnold
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
— Matthew Arnold
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
— Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
— Matthew Arnold
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
— Matthew Arnold
The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
— Matthew Arnold
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?
— Matthew Arnold
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
ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
— Matthew Arnold
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!
— Matthew Arnold
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
The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold
Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread.
— Matthew Arnold
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.
— Matthew Arnold
Choose equality.
— Matthew Arnold
And we forget because we must
— Matthew Arnold
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
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
— Matthew Arnold
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
— Matthew Arnold
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
The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
— Matthew Arnold
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.
— Matthew Arnold
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
— Matthew Arnold
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
— Matthew Arnold
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
— Matthew Arnold
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
— Matthew Arnold
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
— Matthew Arnold
Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.
— Matthew Arnold
Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again.
For then the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day. — Matthew Arnold
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
— Matthew Arnold
And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.
— Matthew Arnold
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
— Matthew Arnold
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
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
— Matthew Arnold
Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.
— Matthew Arnold
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
— Matthew Arnold
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
— Matthew Arnold
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
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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
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
— Matthew Arnold
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
— Matthew Arnold
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
— Matthew Arnold
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
— Matthew Arnold
The sterner self of the Populace likes bawling, hustling, and smashing; the lighter self, beer.
— Matthew Arnold
We mortal millions live alone.
— Matthew Arnold
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
— Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
— Matthew Arnold
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
— Matthew Arnold
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
— Matthew Arnold
Religionthat voice of the deepest human experience. — Matthew Arnold
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold
Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
— Matthew Arnold
For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
— Matthew Arnold
I need coffee to deal with this, and I'm not getting decaf.
— Matthew Arnold Stern
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
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
— Matthew Arnold
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
— Matthew Arnold
Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.
— Matthew Arnold
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
— Matthew Arnold
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
— Matthew Arnold
In mystery our soul abides.
— Matthew Arnold
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
— Matthew Arnold
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
Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling
— Matthew Arnold
