All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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