Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective.


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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission
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The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
ARNOLD BENNETT
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and supe...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the...
ARNOLD BENNETT
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "T...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of av...
ARNOLD BENNETT
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to l...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
ARNOLD BENNETT
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well ...
ARNOLD BENNETT
He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends: Faithful friends! It lies I know ...
EDWIN ARNOLD
Then gazing up 'mid the dim pillars high, The foliaged marble forest where ye lie, Hush, ye wi...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say on...
ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
EDWIN ARNOLD
Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
EDWIN ARNOLD
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder
EBERHARD ARNOLD
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
ARNOLD BENNETT
I met a preacher there I knew, and said, Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene? Brave...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a l...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still, Out-top...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Hark! ah, the nightingale-- The tawny-throated! Hark from that moonlit cedar what a burst! ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that he may live.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD