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 ARNOLDWeep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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