Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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