Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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