The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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 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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