But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Sanity — 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.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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