Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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