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The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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
Conduct is three-fourths of life and its largest concern.
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
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will.
Matthew Arnold
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.
Matthew Arnold
Let the long contention cease; Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
Matthew Arnold
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold
The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
Matthew Arnold
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Matthew Arnold
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold
in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
Matthew Arnold
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power.
Matthew Arnold
I am bound by my own definition of criticism a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too.
Matthew Arnold
Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.
Matthew Arnold
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