But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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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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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Culture, 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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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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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