Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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