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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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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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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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