Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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