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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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