How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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