On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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