It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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