To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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