The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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