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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDHistory – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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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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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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