But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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