How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
MATTHEW ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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.
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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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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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