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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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