How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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.
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