Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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