And we forget because we must and not because we will.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNow the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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