Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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