Style … 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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