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 ARNOLDWaiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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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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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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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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