Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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