"Mind is a light which the Gods mock……" — Matthew Arnold
"Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it."
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in…
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it…
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of…
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It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
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