Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold Men of culture are the true apostles of equality Matthew Arnold apostles men culture I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold definitions criticism world The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear. Matthew Arnold bears joy happiness Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold personality perfection character All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. Matthew Arnold biblical atheist religious Alas! is even love too weak Matthew Arnold heart men life Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. Matthew Arnold our-society justice america 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. Matthew Arnold diversity justice class Greatness is a spiritual condition. Matthew Arnold greatness soul spiritual I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Matthew Arnold yesterday today believe Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Matthew Arnold concern three cute 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! Matthew Arnold autumn play boys 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. Matthew Arnold elements two interesting Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream. Matthew Arnold weed light wind Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man. Matthew Arnold be-a-man saint men Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too? Matthew Arnold new-beginnings light disappointment Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. Matthew Arnold soul winning wind The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly. Matthew Arnold greek latin character Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Matthew Arnold expression mind class Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Matthew Arnold tranquil change men
