If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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 do we discern.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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