To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living 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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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