Quote #63
We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
More from Matthew Arnold
- Thou hast no right to bliss.
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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- So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.
- Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.
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- Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing…
- The day in his hotness, The strife with the palm; The night in her silence, The stars in their calm.