More from Matthew Arnold
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold 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.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold 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?
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold 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.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
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Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
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Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
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Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.
Abdu'l-BahaAbdu'l-Baha It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
IsocratesIsocrates When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, “for” and “against” are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
ZhuangziZhuangzi I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
Man RayMan Ray If the affairs of the world were put in the hands of the screwball artists, it couldn’t be in a worse state than it is now !
Man RayMan Ray It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Pliny the ElderPliny the Elder Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph EllisonRalph Ellison