Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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