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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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