It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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