One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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