All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as… Class
- Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .… Adorable
- The kings of modern thought are dumb. Dumb
- Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left… Balance
- The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us… Assert
- For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust… Change
- We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering… Air
- The same heart beats in every human breast. Beats
- Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good. All
- Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust,… Achieve
- Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it. False
- Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears. Breast
- Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow. Aim
- Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. Alone
- Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. Calm
- Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some… Bent
- It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. Almost Impossible
- France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. All
- Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make,… Abides
- But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ...… Alike