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 ARNOLDFor poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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