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 ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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