Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold
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
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Matthew Arnold
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Matthew Arnold
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold
It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Matthew Arnold
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
Matthew Arnold
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
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
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
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
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
Matthew Arnold
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
Matthew Arnold
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
Matthew Arnold
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1822-12-24
Year of Death:
1888
Nationality:
English |
