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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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