Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAh, love, let us be true To one another!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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