"The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the……" — Matthew Arnold

"The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head."

— Matthew Arnold

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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…

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I'm not funny. What I am is brave. — Lucille Ball
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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