The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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