The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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