And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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