The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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