All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. Birth
- In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with… All
- Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! Ah
- For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule. Corrupt
- Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! Belief
- Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And… Ah
- When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his… Bow
- To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. Applaud
- Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may… Affair
- A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time. Birth
- 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 healing power? Byron
- And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. All
- The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards,… Bards
- Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live… All
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. All
- Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Fall
- We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our… Acts
- The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry Inspirational
- Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Despair
- For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. All
- Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Ah
- For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze… Aspire
- He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and… Allied
- But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. Book
- Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. Bare