It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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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?
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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