The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Greatness 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.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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