Matthew Arnold

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#life

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#love #love-story #reality #dreams

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#humor

Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#love #lovers #the-buried-life #life

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#evidence #exaggerate #human #human mind #impossible

Journalism is literature in a hurry. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#journalism #literature

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#enlarged #faithfully #gifts #higher #know

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#come #crowded #death #friends #gloom

Greatness is a spiritual condition. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#greatness #spiritual

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#himself #his #know #loses #misery