And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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