Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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