Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBusiness could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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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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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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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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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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