Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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