I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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