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 ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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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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