I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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