All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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