The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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