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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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 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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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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