I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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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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