All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying 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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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