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 ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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