With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDWith aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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