The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold More Quotes by Matthew Arnold More Quotes From Matthew Arnold The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Matthew Arnold faithwindnight On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence. Matthew Arnold foambellshistory Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Matthew Arnold borntwoworld Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew Arnold standing-alonehopeimpossible Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell. Matthew Arnold carnationsmuskbreak Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. Matthew Arnold spirituallawmen Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. Matthew Arnold prejudicequalitymind Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease. Matthew Arnold strugglesleeplong If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer. Matthew Arnold heroismmediocritymen 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. Matthew Arnold lightstrongthinking And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne. Matthew Arnold thronesintellectualsuffering The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. Matthew Arnold gone Ah, love, let us be true Matthew Arnold certitudebeing-truelove How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Matthew Arnold secrecysolitudemind Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held. Matthew Arnold truthgivingmen Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling Matthew Arnold litethicsfeelings The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. Matthew Arnold emotionheartspring Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. Matthew Arnold whisperingairrooms We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states. Matthew Arnold doctrinetruthmind Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. Matthew Arnold moralitycertainideas
