They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDYes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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