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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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