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 ARNOLDColeridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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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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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!
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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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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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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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