The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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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.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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