Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHave something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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