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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs,
and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
- Matthew Arnold
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald,
with a baldness full of grandeur.
- Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection;
it is a study of perfection.
- Matthew Arnold
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
- Matthew Arnold
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play,
Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself,
loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
- Matthew Arnold
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged;
practice what you know,
and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
- Matthew Arnold
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness
of the human mind to take miracles as evidence,
and to seek for miracles as evidence.
- Matthew Arnold
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians,
Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves
with the Barbarians quite left out,
and the Populace nearly.
- Matthew Arnold
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
- Matthew Arnold
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
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
- Matthew Arnold
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
- Matthew Arnold
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
- Matthew Arnold
Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
still standing for some false impossible shore.
- Matthew Arnold
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
- Matthew Arnold
Spare me the whispering, crowded room,
the friends who come and gape and go,
the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
- Matthew Arnold
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed
for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus,
not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
- Matthew Arnold
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur,
the power of the man and the power of the moment,
and the man is not enough without the moment.
- Matthew Arnold
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Matthew Arnold
To have the sense of creative activity is the great
happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- Matthew Arnold
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming,
is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
- Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful,
impressive,
and widely effective mode of saying things.
- Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
- Matthew Arnold
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
- Matthew Arnold
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in
man as the need in a plant for the light,
or the need in man himself for going upright.
The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
- Matthew Arnold
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours.
- Irish Blessing
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings,
of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home.
He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.
- Osho
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
A man's home is his wife's castle.
- Alexander Chase
Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home,
you're not happy anywhere else.
- Angie Harmon
Home is where we feel comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People who have good relationships at home are more
effective in the marketplace.
- Zig Ziglar
When you finally go back to your old home,
you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
- Sam Ewing
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
- Thomas Fuller
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress,
as well for his defence against injury and violence,
as for his repose.
- Edward Coke
Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
- William Jerome
Nothing can bring a real sense of security
into the home except true love.
- Billy Graham
Where thou art, that is home.
- Emily Dickinson
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
- Helen Rowland
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring
of all earthly establishments.
- Channing Pollock
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
- Yunus Emre
When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded.
You learn to realize what truly matters.
- Tony Stewart
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
- Le Corbusier
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
- Phillips Brooks
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
- Elie Wiesel
Home is not a structure, but the place that we feel comfortable -
the place we belong - the place of our loved ones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
- William Ellery Channing
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
- Kin Hubbard
Decorate your home.
It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
- Charles M. Schulz
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
- Jane Austen
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home.
There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
- Amy Grant
Seek home for rest, for home is best.
- Thomas Tusser
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
There is nothing more important than a good,
safe, secure home.
- Rosalynn Carter
What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
- Mother Teresa
Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.
- Henry Anatole Grunwald
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