For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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