Matthew Arnold Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

• God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, School, Church

• Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Saint, Be A Man

  'Empedocles on Etna' (1852) act 1, sc. 2, l. 136

• The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Saint, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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