Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The 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.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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