I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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