Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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