Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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