Quotes
Quotes - Arnold
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou My refuge!" and no more.
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye will say, it is eternity! This is the glimmering verge of heaven, and there The columns of the heavenly palaces.
[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
Yet who shall shut out Fate?
Making all future fruits of all the pasts.
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
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.
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
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.
The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -Matthew Arnold.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern.
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
