Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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