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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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