<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37698" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Second Best</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moderate tasks and moderate leisure,<br> Quiet living, strict-kept measure<br> Both in suffering and in pleasure<br> ’Tis for this thy nature yearns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But so many books thou readest,<br> But so many schemes thou breedest,<br> But so many wishes feedest,<br> That thy poor head almost turns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And (the world’s so madly jangled,<br> Human things so fast entangled)<br> Nature’s wish must now be strangled<br> For that best which she discerns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> So it must be! yet, while leading<br> A strain’d life, while overfeeding,<br> Like the rest, his wit with reading,<br> No small profit that man earns,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who through all he meets can steer him,<br> Can reject what cannot clear him,<br> Cling to what can truly cheer him!<br> Who each day more surely learns</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> That an impulse, from the distance<br> Of his deepest, best existence,<br> To the words ‘Hope, Light, Persistence,’<br> Strongly stirs and truly burns!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37698" data-title="The Second Best de Matthew Arnold" data-description="Moderate tasks and moderate leisure,/ Quiet living, strict-kept measure/ Both in suffering and in pleasure/ ’Tis for this thy nature yearns./ But so many books thou readest,/ But so many schemes thou breedest,/ But so many wishes feedest,/ That ..."></div> </div> </div>

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