And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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