Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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.
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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.
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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