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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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