But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTis 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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