Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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