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 ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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