The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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However, 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.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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