France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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!
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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If 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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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