But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Nor 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.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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