Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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