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 man is not enough without the moment. Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today. Matthew Arnold loses tomorrow today Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Matthew Arnold ebb-and-flow change men Now, the whole world hears Matthew Arnold giving men father Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light. Matthew Arnold passion hate men The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it. Matthew Arnold discipline teaching may 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 unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. Matthew Arnold wall dream work Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! Matthew Arnold garden heart beautiful One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class. Matthew Arnold ordinary class world ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee. Matthew Arnold thee time Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold poetic criticism law Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. Matthew Arnold toppings knowledge art There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail." Matthew Arnold bishops reason culture Six years-six little years-six drops of time. Matthew Arnold time littles years Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. Matthew Arnold nature writing hands But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. Matthew Arnold poor wish book The kings of modern thought are dumb. Matthew Arnold modern dumb kings Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. Matthew Arnold intuition sweet jesus The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. Matthew Arnold likes class heaven Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. Matthew Arnold tranquility calm crowns Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. Matthew Arnold sick asking sea
