Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Now, the whole world hears Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last, Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,--… — 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
Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man… — 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
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say,… — 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
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these… — 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
