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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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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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