4 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Suffering

Matthew Arnold quotes on suffering

21. How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again - thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!

57. Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear - And struck his finger on the place, And said - Thou ailest here, and here.

65. So, loath to suffer mute. We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.

70. And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.