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 ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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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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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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