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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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