Men Quotes by Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

— Matthew Arnold

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

— Matthew Arnold

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

— Matthew Arnold

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

— Matthew Arnold

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

— Matthew Arnold

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

— Matthew Arnold

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that…

— Matthew Arnold

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

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

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

— Matthew Arnold

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

A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.

— Matthew Arnold

Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

— Matthew Arnold

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever…

— Matthew Arnold

At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One…

— Matthew Arnold

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the…

— Matthew Arnold

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level…

— Matthew Arnold

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

For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks,…

— Matthew Arnold

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life…

— Matthew Arnold

Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble…

— Matthew Arnold

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these…

— Matthew Arnold

The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature…

— Matthew Arnold

Only--but this is rare-- When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable…

— Matthew Arnold

The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal…

— Matthew Arnold

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one…

— Matthew Arnold

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this…

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it…

— Matthew Arnold

The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised…

— Matthew Arnold

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

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

— Matthew Arnold

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

— Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

— Matthew Arnold

Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

— Matthew Arnold

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

The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do…

— Matthew Arnold

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with…

— Matthew Arnold

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

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a…

— Matthew Arnold

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint…

— Matthew Arnold