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Matthew Arnold Quotes

Matthew Arnold Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Matthew Arnold
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
English
Birth day:
December 24
Birth year:
1822

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    And we forget because we must and not because we will. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    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-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    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-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Greatness is a spiritual condition. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    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-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew 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-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold
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    Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Matthew-ArnoldMatthew Arnold