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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBe neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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