Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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