Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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