Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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