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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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