To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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