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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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