Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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