Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I 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.
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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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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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