I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFrance, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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