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!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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