Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Nature’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.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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