Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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