Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The 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.
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