And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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 the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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