Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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