Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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