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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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