Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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