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 ARNOLDIt is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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