And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDSay, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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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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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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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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