Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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