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 ARNOLDBald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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