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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought 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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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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, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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