All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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 true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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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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