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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTruth sits upon the lips of dying men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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