Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWhoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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