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Quote by Matthew Arnold
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divi

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. – Matthew Arnold

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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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

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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. – Matthew Arnold

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And to this day I wish I had lingered a week or so…. But we stupid mortals, or most of us, are always in haste to reach somewhere else, forgetting that the zest is in the journey and not in the destination. – Ralph D. Paine, Roads of Adventure

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If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. – Saint Vincent de Paul

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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. – Turkish Proverb

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He bites his tongue who speaks in haste. – Turkish Proverb

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The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot. – J.B. Yeats

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People dont think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value. – Henry Reed

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Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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