Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Is 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?
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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 the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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