Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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