“The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.”

— Hugh Kingsmill

Matthew Arnold (1928) p. 89

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British writer and journalist 1889–1949

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