This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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