The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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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.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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