The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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At 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.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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