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 ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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