Quote by Matthew Arnold
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill,

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner

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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. – James Branch Cabell

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She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. – Frank Deford

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