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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHome of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to 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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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