But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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