It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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