On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd 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!
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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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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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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