All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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