Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
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 Copy Share
English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share
