Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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