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 ARNOLDResolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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 do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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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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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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