The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHowever, 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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