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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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