Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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