Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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