Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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 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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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.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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