How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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