3 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Effort

Matthew Arnold quotes on effort

11. With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish't were done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

55. Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

74. Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge-theology, philosophy, history, art, science-to see the object as in itself it really is.