Matthew Arnold on best
Matthew Arnold104 quotes“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold 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.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey Wish them the very best and let them walk away.
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Celine ZabadCeline Zabad Now if only at my worst had I known I was about to be at my best.
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Ava NicoleAva Nicole You were the best and worst nights of my life fucking while the flames lick us at least you’re a distraction from my spiritual death. You’re a god damn angel in a crack den.
Allie MillerAllie Miller I was pushed to my limit and it almost broke my spirit I know change is for the best but there’s a part of me I haven’t left I’m taking time to love this mind of mine.
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