"We cannot kindle when we will The fire……" — Matthew Arnold
"We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd."
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Matthew Arnold
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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More Abides Quotes
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
— Arthur Ashe
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
— Alice Meynell
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
— John Owen
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature…
— Rajneesh
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the…
— Helen Keller
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their…
— Pericles
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Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word…
— Brigitte Gabriel
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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