It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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