I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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