Matthew Arnold

(77 votes)   Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Matthew Arnold
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(22 votes)   It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

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(293 votes)   The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(208 votes)   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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(160 votes)   Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.

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(149 votes)   Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

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(146 votes)   But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

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(142 votes)   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.

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(142 votes)   If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(137 votes)   ...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

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(135 votes)   With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

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(73 votes)   Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

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(70 votes)   And we forget because we must and not because we will.

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(68 votes)   Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

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(67 votes)   Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

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