I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIf an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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 brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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