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 ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Nor 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.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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