The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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 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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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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