They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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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.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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