Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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