It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and 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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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