Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow 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.
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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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