Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of… — 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 Image
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 Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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 Image
