But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDGreatness is a spiritual condition.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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