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.
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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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