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Upon Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our…
- One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as…
- The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
- 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.
- The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is…
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