All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Style … 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.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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