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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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