Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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