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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: December 24, 1822 Date of Death: April 15, 1888 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Matthew Arnold Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold 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 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 is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. 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 France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. 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 almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. 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 Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. Matthew Arnold Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. 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 Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Matthew Arnold Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Matthew Arnold Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show. 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 This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Matthew Arnold Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Matthew Arnold |
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