All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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For 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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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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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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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 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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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