Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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 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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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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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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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.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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