Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDUse your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature’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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOur inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDStyle … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOthers abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
MATTHEW ARNOLDA wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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