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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWho hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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