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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." By 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. By 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. By 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. By 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? By Matthew Arnold

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. By Matthew Arnold

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. By Matthew Arnold

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? By Matthew Arnold

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life. By Matthew Arnold

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening ... By Matthew Arnold

Come to me in my dreams, and thenBy day I shall be well again.For then the night will more than payThe hopeless longing of the day. By Matthew Arnold

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

Not deep the poet sees, but wide. By Matthew Arnold

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. By Matthew Arnold

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. By Matthew Arnold

Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

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! By Matthew Arnold

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. By Matthew Arnold

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

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. By Matthew Arnold

Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! By Matthew Arnold

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

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

Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from ... By 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. By Matthew Arnold

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. By Matthew Arnold

Religionthat voice of the deepest human experience. By Matthew Arnold

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. By Matthew Arnold

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

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. By Matthew Arnold

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. By Matthew Arnold

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

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . By Matthew Arnold

And we are here as on a darkling plainSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where ignorant armies clash by night. By Matthew Arnold

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. By Matthew Arnold

Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light. By Matthew Arnold

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. By Matthew Arnold

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good. By Matthew Arnold

Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. By Matthew Arnold

We mortal millions live alone. By Matthew Arnold

They ... who awaitNo gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. By Matthew Arnold

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

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! By Matthew Arnold

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. By Matthew Arnold

The sterner self of the Populace likes bawling, hustling, and smashing; the lighter self, beer. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference. By Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. By Matthew Arnold

Nor does the being hungry prove that we have bread. By Matthew Arnold

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! By Matthew Arnold

ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee. By Matthew Arnold

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. By Matthew Arnold

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. By Matthew Arnold

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. By Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours. By Matthew Arnold

For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. By Matthew Arnold

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... By Matthew Arnold

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. By Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. By Matthew Arnold

To see the object as in itself it really is By Matthew Arnold

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. By Matthew Arnold

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling By Matthew Arnold

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. By 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. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat. By Matthew Arnold

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. By Matthew Arnold

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

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall. By Matthew Arnold

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. By Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. By Matthew Arnold

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. By Matthew Arnold

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

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. By Matthew Arnold

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. By Matthew Arnold

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

Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. By Matthew Arnold

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. By Matthew Arnold

For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. By Matthew Arnold

The man who to untimely death is doomed Vainly would hedge him in from the assault of harm; He bears the seed of ruin in himself. By 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! By Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

Miracles do not happen. By Matthew Arnold

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth. By Matthew Arnold

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye. By Matthew Arnold

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness. By Matthew Arnold

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. By Matthew Arnold

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

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. By Matthew Arnold

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

Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready. By Matthew Arnold

The kings of modern thought are dumb. By Matthew Arnold

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. By Matthew Arnold

Saw life steadily and saw it whole. By Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. By Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. By Matthew Arnold

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one By 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. By Matthew Arnold

The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. By Matthew Arnold

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

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. By Matthew Arnold

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods By Matthew Arnold

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more. By Matthew Arnold

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. By Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. By Matthew Arnold

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus. By Matthew Arnold

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in commondiscontent. By Matthew Arnold

Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn? By Matthew Arnold

How many mindsalmost all the great oneswere formed in secrecy and solitude! By Matthew Arnold

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. By Matthew Arnold

Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today. By Matthew Arnold

The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. By Matthew Arnold

Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. By Matthew Arnold

Choose equality. By Matthew Arnold

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. By Matthew Arnold

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

And we forget because we must and not because we will. By Matthew Arnold

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

Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind. By Matthew Arnold

All pains the immortal spirit must endure,All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. By Matthew Arnold

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. By Matthew Arnold

Six years-six little years-six drops of time. By Matthew Arnold

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality By 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. By 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. By Matthew Arnold

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! By Matthew Arnold

In mystery our soul abides. By Matthew Arnold

All the live murmur of a summer's day. By Matthew Arnold

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

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? By Matthew Arnold

And we forget because we must By Matthew Arnold

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry By 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. By Matthew Arnold

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

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. By Matthew Arnold

He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. By Matthew Arnold

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

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

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

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. By Matthew Arnold

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! By Matthew Arnold

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. By Matthew Arnold

Art still has truth. Take refuge there. By Matthew Arnold