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 ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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