Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd we forget because we must and not because we will.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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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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