Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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