Quotation:
"Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled."
More quotes from: Matthew Arnold
- "Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. "
- "Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. "
- "But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget ..."
- "Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. "
- "Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. "
- "Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the ..."
- "For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of ..."
- "Greatness is a spiritual condition. "
- "Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! "
- "It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light ..."
- "Journalism is literature in a hurry. "
- "Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with ..."
- "Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; ..."
- "Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. "
- "Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false ..."
- "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. "
- "The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in ..."
- "The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. "
- "The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. "
- "The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of ..."
- "This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. "


