Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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