Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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