All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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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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I 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.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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