They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Now 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.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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