Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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