It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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