A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt 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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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