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 ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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