Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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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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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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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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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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