Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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