25 result(s) for Matthew Arnold Quotes.
"Conduct is three-fourths of life."
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
"Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."
"Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style."
"The future is before you, and though it may be full of darkness, it is not without the guiding light of hope."
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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."
"Philistines, brothers, there are always more of them than of us."
"The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness."
"To see life steadily and see it whole."
"The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or severity a serious subject."
"Words, which are the tools of poetry, must be words really alive with the blood and thought of men."
"Men are powerfully affected by feelings that develop, not in what they consciously see, but in what affects them below consciousness."
"A writer of prose has one formidable task: he must think."
"Our inequality materialises itself more in the access to and the fruition of spiritual things than in any other way."
"Fate gave what life could not."
"The mass of mankind think that they have an interest in self-deception."
"The power of detachment is the power of seeing things as they are."
"That melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, / Retreating, to the breath / Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear / And naked shingles of the world."
"Year follows year, / Decay pursues decay, / Still here we live."
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"And we are here as on a darkling plain / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night."
"Who hesitate and falter life away, / And lose tomorrow by the over-anxious care of today."
"Mortals cannot be happy."
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he, / Who finds himself, loses his misery!"
