It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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