Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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