Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYears hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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