Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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