Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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