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55 Quotes for 'Matthew Arnold' in the Database.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Six years--six little years--six drops of time.
Topic: Time
Source: Mycerinus (st. 11)
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Women
Source: Euphrosyne
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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.
Topic: World
Source: Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
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Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep,
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires.
Topic: Youth
Source: Youth and Calm (l. 19)
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