5 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Self

Matthew Arnold quotes on self

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!

14. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

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.

38. 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.

60. Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.