"To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost……" — Matthew Arnold
"To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man."
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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.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
— Aesop
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I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
— Tony Campolo
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The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative…
— Barbara Jordan
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When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.
— Jim Brosnan
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state…
— Craig R. Barrett
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!
— Augustus
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money…
— Horace
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If you think is was an accident, applaud.
— Geraldo Rivera
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
— William Hazlitt
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Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities…
— Kimberly Yee
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