Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHow many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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