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 ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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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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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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