Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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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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And 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!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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