But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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