Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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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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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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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