How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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However, 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.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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