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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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