The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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