Joy 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIs 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?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture 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.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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