Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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