The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Now 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.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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