The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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