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 ARNOLDThe grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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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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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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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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