Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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