I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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