The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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