Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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