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 ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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 bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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If 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.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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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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