Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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