But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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