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.
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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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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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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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