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God's Wisdom and God's Goodne...

God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Be neither saint nor sophist-...

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

Nor bring, to see me cease to...

Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
To shake his sapient head, and give
The ill he cannot cure a name.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

With aching hands and bleedin...

With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.

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The sophist sneers: Fool, tak...

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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Not a having and a resting, b...

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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What actions are the most exc...

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

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O born in days when wits were...

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

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The future of poetry is immen...

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

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Consider these people, then, ...

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?

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Know, man hath all which Natu...

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

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Protestantism has the method ...

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

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Culture being a pursuit of ou...

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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They... who await. No gifts f...

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

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For poetry the idea is everyt...

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

Matthew Arnold 296 quotes

The power of the Latin classi...

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

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Below the surface stream, sha...

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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Culture, the acquainting ours...

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

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Weep bitterly over the dead, ...

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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How many minds--almost all th...

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

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