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!
MATTHEW ARNOLDForce and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Time 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?
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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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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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