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 ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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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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