Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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