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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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