The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv... ARNOLD BENNETT It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. ARNOLD BENNETT Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! MATTHEW ARNOLD What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduc... THOMAS ARNOLD Make your life a mission-not an intermission. ARNOLD GLASGOW This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ARNOLD BENNETT Greatness is a spiritual condition. MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. MATTHEW ARNOLD Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g... ARNOLD BENNETT Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God EBERHARD ARNOLD You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ... EBERHARD ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. MATTHEW ARNOLD Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func... ARNOLD BENNETT The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ... MATTHEW ARNOLD Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ... THOMAS ARNOLD The price of Justice is eternal publicity. ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a... ARNOLD BENNETT Journalism is literature in a hurry. MATTHEW ARNOLD If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ... EBERHARD ARNOLD You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. ARNOLD BAX Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no... ARNOLD GLASGOW The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile... MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ... MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening... MATTHEW ARNOLD