Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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