Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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