What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more. Matthew Arnold paris humble bears Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again. Matthew Arnold ocean sea men Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Matthew Arnold swans geese long 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. Matthew Arnold energy-of-life battle soul All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates. Matthew Arnold hate unhappy peace 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. Matthew Arnold grateful dream sleep God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore. Matthew Arnold church god school And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening. Matthew Arnold june dream sweet And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Matthew Arnold dust each-day soul It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. Matthew Arnold miracle mind impossible Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. Matthew Arnold expression The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe. Matthew Arnold ignorance education science France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. Matthew Arnold great-art france art Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live. Matthew Arnold cities men peace It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think. Matthew Arnold able important thinking But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense. Matthew Arnold education science lying All the live murmur of a summer's day. Matthew Arnold summer But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth. Matthew Arnold hue truth son Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power. Matthew Arnold ancient-literature sanity want Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Matthew Arnold speak heart love
