Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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