It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHowever, 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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