Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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.
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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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