For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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