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 ARNOLDIf an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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