The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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