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Matthew Arnold Quotes: Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
         

Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.


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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.



If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.



Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.



The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.



Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.



Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.



Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming



He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.



Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!



Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.





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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.



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I don't use labels a lot.



Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.

Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.



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I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.



We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.



In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.



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