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 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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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