| 65 Famous Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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“God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools
Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.
This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:
'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.”
God Quotes Source: The Divinity (st. 3)
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“Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in
the world."”
Education Quotes Source: Literature and Dogma (preface)
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“Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
The vasty hall of death.”
Death Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.”
Death Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly.”
Death Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.”
Death Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.”
Love Quotes Source: Dover Beach
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“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 as we discern.”
Life Quotes Source: Morality (st. 2)
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“This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
Life Quotes Source: Scholar-Gypsy (st. 21)
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“Saw life steadily and saw it whole.”
Life Quotes Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.”
Life Quotes Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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“They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.”
Life Quotes Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know.”
Life Quotes Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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“I met a preacher there I knew, and said,
Ill and overworked, how fare you in this scene?
Bravely! said he; for I of late have been
Much cheered with thoughts of Christ, the living bread.”
Preaching Quotes Source: East London
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“And see all sights from pole to pole
And glance, and nod, and bustle by,
And never once possess our soul
Before we die.”
Soul Quotes Source: A Southern Night (st. 18)
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“But each day brings from its pretty dust
Our soon choked souls to fill.”
Soul Quotes Source: Switzerland (pt. VI)
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“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.”
World Quotes Source: Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
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“Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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“The kings of modern thought are dumb.”
Thought Quotes Source: Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
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“Like driftwood spares which meet and pass
Upon the boundless ocean-plain,
So on the sea of life, alas!
Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.”
Meeting Quotes Source: Terrace at Berne
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“Six years--six little years--six drops of time.”
Time Quotes Source: Mycerinus (st. 11)
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“I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face who view,
They should not ask if truth be there.”
Beauty Quotes Source: Euphrosyne
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“[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular
names and impossible loyalties.”
Failure Quotes Source: Essays in Criticism (closing paragraph of preface)
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“On Sundays, at the matin-chime,
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,
Ride out to church from Chamberry,
Dight with mantles gay,
But else it is a lonely time
Round the Church of Brou.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: The Church of Brou (II, st. 3)
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“On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,
Fair child!--it was the bliss within.”
Women Quotes Source: Euphrosyne
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