Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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