It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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At 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.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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