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 ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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