The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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