Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHowever, 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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