And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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?
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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