| 65 Famous Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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“Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
Like the wave;
Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Love tends life a little grace,
A few sad smiles; and then,
Both are laid in one cold place,
In the grave.”
Change Quotes Source: A Question (st. 1)
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“Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!”
Nature Quotes Source: Religious Isolation (st. 4)
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“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 a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.”
Youth Quotes Source: Youth and Calm (l. 19)
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“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 perfection in which the characters of
beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two
noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his
Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and
light."”
Sweetness Quotes Source: Culture and Anarchy
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“The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and
light.”
Sweetness Quotes Source: Culture and Anarchy
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“Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is
more) the passion for making them prevail.”
Sweetness Quotes Source: Literature and Dogma--Preface
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“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 forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.”
Age Quotes Source: Growing Old
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“Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on no religion scornfully
That men did ever find.”
Religion Quotes Source: Progress (st. 10)
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“Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,
For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,
Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;
Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld
One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.”
Power Quotes Source: Balder Dead--The Funeral
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“The East bow'd low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain.
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.”
Countries Quotes Source: Obermann Once More (st. 28)
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“If Paris that brief flight allow,
My humble tomb explore!
It bears: "Eternity, be thou
My refuge!" and no more.”
Epitaphs Quotes Source: Epitaph
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“Hark! ah, the nightingale--
The tawny-throated!
Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst!
What triumph! hark!--what pain!
. . . .
Again--thou hearest?
Eternal passion!
Eternal pain!”
Nightingales Quotes Source: Philomela (l. 32)
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“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,
From strength to strength advancing--only he
His soul well-knit, and all his battles won,
Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.”
Immortality Quotes Source: Sonnet--Immortality
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“Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high,
The foliaged marble forest where ye lie,
Hush, ye will say, it is eternity!
This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there
The columns of the heavenly palaces.”
Eternity Quotes Source: The Tomb
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“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
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“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
Emotion` Quotes |
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“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
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“But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.”
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“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”
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“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.”
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“Every time the words "contrition" or "humility" drop from the lips of a prophet or psalmist, Christianity appears.”
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“The seven works of bodily mercy be these: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked and the needy, harbour the houseless, comfort the sick, visit prisoners, bury the dead. The seven works of spiritual mercy be these: teach men the truth, counsel men to hold with Christ's law, chastise sinners by moderate reproving in charity, comfort sorrowful men by Christ's passion, forgive wrongs, suffer meekly reproofs for the right of God's law, pray heartily for friend and for foe. ... Middle English Sermons September 6, 2001 Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 Of the access for us, at any rate, to the spirit of life -- us who were born in Christendom, and are in touch, conscious or unconscious, with Christianity -- this is the true account. Questions over which the churches spend so much labour and time -- questions about the Trinity, about the godhead of Christ, about the procession of the Holy Ghost -- are not vital; what is vital is the doctrine of access to the spirit of life through Christ.”
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“One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.”
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“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.”
Inspiring Quotes |
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