Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLDBut there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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