Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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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.
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