It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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