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
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think… — 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
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to… — 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
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,… — 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
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light… — 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
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light… He who works for sweetness and light united, works to… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed… — 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
