History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
MATTHEW ARNOLDJoy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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 true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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