The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
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More quotes by Matthew Arnold
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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- To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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