Tis 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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