Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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