It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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