Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 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.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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