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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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