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Men Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
- The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man…
- For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the…
- At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men…
- Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
- To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
- A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
- 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…
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- 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…
- Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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.
- It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the…
- Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.
- 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…
- All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
- If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of…
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