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Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II QUOTES

Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II QUOTES

1 " Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have liv'd light in the spring,
To have lov'd, to have thought, to have done;
To have advanc'd true friends, and beat down baffling foes;

That we must feign a bliss
Of doubtful future date,
And while we dream on this
Lose our present state,
And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose?

Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II "

― Matthew Arnold , Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II

2 " The wheels of life
Stand never idle, but go always round.

- To the Duke of Wellington "

― Matthew Arnold , Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II

3 " Tis not the times, 'Tis not the Sophists vex him:
There is some root of suffering in himself,
Some secret and unfollow'd vein of woe,
Which makes the times look black and sad to him.

Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene I "

― Matthew Arnold , Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II

4 " Spells? Mistrust them.
Mind is the spell which governs earth and heaven.
Man has a mind with which to plan his safety.
Know that, and help thyself.

Empedocles on Etna: Act I, Scene II "

― Matthew Arnold , Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II

5 " And these, all labouring for a lord,
Eat not the fruit of their own hands:
Which is the heaviest of all plagues,
To that man's mind, who understands.

- The Sick King in Bokhara "

― Matthew Arnold , Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold: Volume II of II