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Matthew Arnold Inspirational Quotes (133)

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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too!
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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.
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Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
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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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The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
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For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
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Thought and science follow their own law of development they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ...The prophetic soul, Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.
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Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
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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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There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, To make reason and the will of God prevail.
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The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
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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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For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.
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To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
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Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.
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How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open To all always true.
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Come, dear children, let us away Down and away below!
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Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.
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In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.
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