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!
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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