The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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