Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
But 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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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