A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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