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31 Matthew Arnold Quotes & Sayings
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31 Matthew Arnold Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 24 December 1822. Died: 15 April 1888 |
Poet
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Critic
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
Journalism
Literature
Hurry
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Truth
Lips
Dying
Men
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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Matthew Arnold
Part
Religion
Poetry
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Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.
Matthew Arnold
Wandering
Worlds
Dead
Born
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Matthew Arnold
Art
Truth
Refuge
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Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
Matthew Arnold
Life
Getting
Being
Becoming
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The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
Free
Thinking
Age
Common sense
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold
Sense
Creativity
Happiness
Alive
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How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Matthew Arnold
Minds
Great
Secrecy
Solitude
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry
Beautiful
Impressive
Mode
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
Matthew Arnold
Lent
Youth
Age
Discontent
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold
Greatness
Spiritual
Condition
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
Gifts
Faithfully
Practice
Knowledge
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Matthew Arnold
Life
Noble
Ideas
Life
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
Culture
Best
Thought
World
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Matthew Arnold
Fate
Chance
Control
Soul
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
Pursuit
Perfection
Sweetness
Light
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They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
Matthew Arnold
Gifts
Chance
Conquered
Fate
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
Matthew Arnold
Business
Passion
Life
Steadily
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
Culture
Love
Perfection
Study
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
True
Religion
Morality
Emotion
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
Matthew Arnold
Brave
Heart
Subtle
Head
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
Conduct
Life
Concern
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
Matthew Arnold
Men
Culture
Apostles
Equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry
Idea
World
Illusion
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
Matthew Arnold
Knowledge
Wise man
Nature
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
Matthew Arnold
Culture
Intellectual
Moral
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry
Power
Delighting
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Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.
Matthew Arnold
Truth
Joy
Pleasure
Spirits
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Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.
Matthew Arnold
Religion
Voice
Human
Experience
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Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
Matthew Arnold
Change
Tranquil
Strength
Men
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Matthew Arnold Quotes & Sayings