Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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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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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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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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