Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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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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