To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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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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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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