Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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