Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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