Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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.
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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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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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