All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study… Activity
- All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates. All
- The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… Akin
- The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond… Aryan
- What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to… Age
- And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!. Better
- One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. Age
- The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. Anglo
- If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more. Allow
- Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Cease
- God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so… Ah
- No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,… Advancing
- Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. Alas
- It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the… All
- Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. Accompany
- The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a… Battle
- Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears… Acquires
- All the live murmur of a summer's day. All
- The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. Arise
- It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. Able
- Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. English
- Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity. Age
- Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… Ah
- Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Born
- But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… Beats