Matthew Arnold Quotes on Leadership

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  1. The kings of modern thought are dumb.

  2. Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

  3. Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

  4. And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

  5. Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.

  6. Therefore to thee it was given Many to save with thyself; And, at the end of thy day, O faithful shepherd! to come, Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.

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