The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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