3 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Authenticity

Matthew Arnold quotes on authenticity

13. 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!

33. 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.

61. 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.