English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. — 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
If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal… — 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
