The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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