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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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 brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Whoever 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.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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