The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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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