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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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