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!
MATTHEW ARNOLDTo thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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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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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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