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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. — Matthew Arnold

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

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. — 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

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. — Matthew Arnold

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold

The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. — Matthew Arnold

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. — Matthew Arnold

How many minds
almost all the great ones
were formed in secrecy and solitude! — 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

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. — 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

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. — Matthew Arnold

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true. — 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 then
By 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

Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. — 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

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. — Matthew Arnold

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming — Matthew Arnold

Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. — 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

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

Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready. — 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

Religion
that 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

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold

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

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! — 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

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it. — 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

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold