The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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