Quote by Matthew Arnold
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not Ju

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beautys heightening… – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

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Happiness
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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Christianity
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City Life, Cities
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In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future – Daniel J. Boorstin

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast. – Italian Proverb

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. About Paris – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. – Johnny Carson

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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each others children. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. – Rumi

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Rumi

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. – Novalis

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Faith

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Death