Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all. Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle. Matthew Arnold ...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Matthew Arnold But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Matthew Arnold 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 With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. Matthew Arnold Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold resting perfection character culture It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Matthew Arnold loved thought light sun
