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 ARNOLDGenius is mainly an affair of energy.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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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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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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