However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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