Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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