And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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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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