The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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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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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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