Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd 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!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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