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 ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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