Matthew Arnold Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

• The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Joy, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

• Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
  Like the wave;
  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
  Love tends life a little grace,
  A few sad smiles; and then,
  Both are laid in one cold place,
  In the grave.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Ebb And Flow

• Now, the whole world hears
  Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last,
  Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,--
  That promise faithful:--"Fear not, little flock!
  It is your Father's will and joy, to give
  To you, the Kingdom"!

  Matthew Arnold

  Father, Men, Giving

• Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Men, Giving

  Matthew Arnold (1865). “Essays in Criticism”, p.251

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