Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man Matthew Arnold frozenmenworld I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. Matthew Arnold obscurelife-is Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Matthew Arnold doctorsmedicinenames The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. Matthew Arnold yieldbraveheart Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Matthew Arnold souldarkdeath Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too? Matthew Arnold lightlifeheaven Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! Matthew Arnold loyaltynameshome With aching hands and bleeding feet Matthew Arnold lightlifehands Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. Matthew Arnold passionlightculture Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life. Matthew Arnold dreambeautifulhappiness Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. Matthew Arnold despairdreamneeds They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. Matthew Arnold fatechance To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Matthew Arnold proofalivecreative Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. Matthew Arnold becomingperfectionmind Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it? Matthew Arnold voicegivingpeople Only--but this is rare-- Matthew Arnold heartmeanlying Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls Matthew Arnold lawdreamscience Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun. Matthew Arnold agingenjoyedsun Miracles do not happen. Matthew Arnold miraclehappens Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one Matthew Arnold moralintellectualculture
