But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThis strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCome, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime 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?
MATTHEW ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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