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 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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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