Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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