All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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