Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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