Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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