Matthew Arnold Quotes

We do not what we ought What we ought not, we do And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.

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Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties

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

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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This strange disease of modern life,With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

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All the live murmur of a summer's day.

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

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It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.

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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. . . .He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

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The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

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Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou goSoon will the high midsummer pomps come on.

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Culture is. . . properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection it is a study of perfection.

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No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.

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Is it so small a thingTo have enjoyed the sun,To have lived light in the spring,To have loved, to have thought, to have done

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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by And never once possess our soul Before we die.

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Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said

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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common discontent.

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

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Friends who set forth at our side,Falter, are lost in the storm.We, we only, are left

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