Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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.
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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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