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
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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