But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDJournalism is literature in a hurry.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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