The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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