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 ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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