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 ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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