I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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