The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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