Matthew Arnold quotes - page 3

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. (Matthew Arnold)
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. View quote
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. View quote
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Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves. View quote
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What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty. View quote
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I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture. View quote
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And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else. View quote
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true. View quote
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Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium. View quote
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I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is. View quote
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Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. (Matthew Arnold)
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife. View quote
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With women the heart argues, not the mind. View quote
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The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. View quote
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I am past thirty, and three parts iced over. View quote
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers. View quote
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself. View quote
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And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. View quote
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well - but 'tis not true! View quote
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine. View quote
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But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. (Matthew Arnold)
Eutrapelia. "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians... lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. View quote
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Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;-hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play! View quote
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel - below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed. View quote
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening. View quote
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