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 ARNOLDFate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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