On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWhoever 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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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!
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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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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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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