Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness is a spiritual condition.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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