5 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Choice

Matthew Arnold quotes on choice

6. The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of god-like power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

28. 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.

42. Choose equality.

61. The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

63. We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.