Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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