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 ARNOLDTime, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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