Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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