More from Matthew Arnold

  1. 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 forlo…
  2. But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.
  3. For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high white star of Truth, There bade me ga…
  4. Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm, Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
  5. Sanity - that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety an…
  6. With women the heart argues, not the mind.
  7. I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
  8. Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these num…

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