Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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