Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Sanity — 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.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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.
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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