Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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 is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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