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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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