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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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