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Matthew Arnold Quotes
- 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 Arnold
- 2
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. Matthew Arnold
- 3
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. Matthew Arnold
- 4
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. Matthew Arnold
- 5
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
- 6
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
- 7
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. Matthew Arnold
- 8
Greatness is a spiritual condition. Matthew Arnold
- 9
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
- 10
Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold
- 11
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. Matthew Arnold
- 12
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
- 13
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. Matthew Arnold
- 14
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold
- 15
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Matthew Arnold
- 16
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. Matthew Arnold
- 17
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold
- 18
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Matthew Arnold
- 19
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold
- 20
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Matthew Arnold