Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to 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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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