Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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