Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The 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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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