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From Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
- Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from...
- Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And…
- A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
- And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
- Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
- Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .…
- Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left…
- The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us…
- For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust…
- No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,…
- Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,…
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