Matthew Arnold Quotes on Authenticity
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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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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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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.