I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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