Quote #122

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, 'To make reason and the will of God prevail.'

More from Matthew Arnold

  1. To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
  2. The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
  3. The same heart beats in every human breast.
  4. Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?'
  5. The crown of literature is poetry.
  6. But whatever the deity which satisfied Arnold's personal experience may have been, the religion which he gives us in Literature and Dogma a…
  7. It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet lies in his po…
  8. A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

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