Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLDColeridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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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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