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 ARNOLDJoy 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 ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLDBelow the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
MATTHEW ARNOLDMen of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLDOn the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDConduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAt the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll the live murmur of a summer’s day.
MATTHEW ARNOLDIt is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
MATTHEW ARNOLDKnow, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAnd see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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