Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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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 long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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