History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
MATTHEW ARNOLDI do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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