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Matthew Arnold Quotes: But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
         

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.


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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.



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.



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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.

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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.



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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.



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





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