I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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