And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of 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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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