Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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If 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.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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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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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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