All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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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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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.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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