Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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