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?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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