Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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