Matthew Arnold quotes - page 9

All the live murmur of a summer's day. (Matthew Arnold)
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. View quote
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Philistinism We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. View quote
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. View quote
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He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the 'Iliad' itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness and that book is the Bible. View quote
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But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. View quote
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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. View quote
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Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. View quote
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Miracles do not happen. View quote
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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. View quote
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The kings of modern thought are dumb. (Matthew Arnold)
Wandering between two worlds,one dead, The other powerless to be born. View quote
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All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm Endless extinction of unhappy hates. View quote
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One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. View quote
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The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. View quote
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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. View quote
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When Byrons eyes were shut in death, We bowd our head and held our breath. He taught us little but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll.... We watchd the fount of fiery life Which servd for that Titanic life. View quote
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Thou waitest for the spark from heaven and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds ... Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too. View quote
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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. View quote
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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. View quote
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Natures great law, and the law of all mens minds To its own impulse every creature stirs Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers. (Matthew Arnold)
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. View quote
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But there remains the question what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus. View quote
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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. View quote
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Was Christ a man like us Ah let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he. View quote
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