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 ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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