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 ARNOLDCulture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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