The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; 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
No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — 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
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