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... truth of things , and for them alone . Writing in 1868 , he utters his belief that " In this coun- try the functions of a disinterested literary class — a class of non - political writers , having no organised and embodied set of ...
... truth of things , and for them alone . Writing in 1868 , he utters his belief that " In this coun- try the functions of a disinterested literary class — a class of non - political writers , having no organised and embodied set of ...
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... Truth was his foremost quest , and the truth as he knew it , without garnish- ment or reservation , he gave in turn ; and truth is the severest test of magnanimity . Hence frequent conflict with those whom he desired to influence and to ...
... Truth was his foremost quest , and the truth as he knew it , without garnish- ment or reservation , he gave in turn ; and truth is the severest test of magnanimity . Hence frequent conflict with those whom he desired to influence and to ...
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... truth that satisfaction and sufficiency must be found within and not without , that man is his own best friend , and that what he can- not give to his life by thought and effort concentrated upon its harmonious development , no one else ...
... truth that satisfaction and sufficiency must be found within and not without , that man is his own best friend , and that what he can- not give to his life by thought and effort concentrated upon its harmonious development , no one else ...
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... miss our aim , If some fair coast have lured us to make stay , Or some friend hail'd us to keep company . Enough that at the end we shall know the truth , shall see things plainly which now are obscure , shall look 22 Matthew Arnold.
... miss our aim , If some fair coast have lured us to make stay , Or some friend hail'd us to keep company . Enough that at the end we shall know the truth , shall see things plainly which now are obscure , shall look 22 Matthew Arnold.
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... truth be added , more persuasively- than upon culture . " English civilisation , " he writes in one place , " the ... truths hitherto unregarded , but next to the creation of new ideals no higher service can be done for mankind than to ...
... truth be added , more persuasively- than upon culture . " English civilisation , " he writes in one place , " the ... truths hitherto unregarded , but next to the creation of new ideals no higher service can be done for mankind than to ...
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Page 435 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea...
Page 113 - CREEP into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.
Page 235 - Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad ? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah ? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand...
Page 26 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Page 157 - Seem'd but a cry of desire. Yes! I believe that there lived Others like thee in the past, Not like the men of the crowd Who all round me to-day Bluster...
Page 58 - But culture indefatigably tries, not to make what each raw person may like, the rule by which he fashions himself; but to draw ever nearer to a sense of what is indeed beautiful, graceful, and becoming, and to get the raw person to like that.
Page 177 - Children of men ! the unseen Power, whose eye For ever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find. ' Which has not taught weak wills how much they can ? Which has not fall'n on the dry heart like rain ? Which has not cried to sunk, self-weary man : Thou must be born again...
Page 129 - And the more that men's minds are cleared, the more that the results of science are frankly accepted, the more that poetry and eloquence come to be received and studied as what in truth they really are, — the criticism of life by gifted men, alive and active with extraordinary power at an unusual number of points; — so much the more will the value of humane letters, and of art also, which is an utterance having a like kind of power with theirs, be felt and acknowledged, and their place in education...
Page 88 - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
Page 48 - Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.