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> [If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/if-an-historian-be-an-unbeliever-in-all-heroism-if-he-be-a-man-who/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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> [The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-sophist-sneers-fool-take-thy-pleasure-right-or-wrong-the-pious/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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> [Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/be-neither-saint-nor-sophist-led-but-be-a-man/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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## Other authors on Be a man

## More by Matthew Arnold

> [Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-looks-beyond-machinery-culture-hates-hatred-culture-has-one/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/we-must-hold-fast-to-the-austere-but-true-doctrine-as-to-what-really/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-is-the-endeavour-to-know-the-best-and-to-make-this-knowledge/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-difference-between-genuine-poetry-and-the-poetry-of-dryden-pope/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-the-acquainting-ourselves-with-the-best-that-has-been-known/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/strew-on-her-roses-roses-and-never-a-spray-of-yew-in-quiet-she/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/nature-with-equal-mind-sees-all-her-sons-at-play-sees-man-control-the/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Six years-six little years-six drops of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/six-years-six-little-years-six-drops-of-time/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/let-the-long-contention-cease-geese-are-swans-and-swans-are-geese/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/it-is-almost-impossible-to-exaggerate-the-proneness-of-the-human-mind/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/religion-is-ethics-heightened-enkindled-lit-up-by-feeling/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Genius is mainly an affair of energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/genius-is-mainly-an-affair-of-energy/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/culture-is-both-an-intellectual-phenomenon-and-a-moral-one/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/english-civilization-the-humanizing-the-bringing-into-one-harmonious/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

> [“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/wandering-between-two-worlds-one-dead-the-other-powerless-to-be-born/)

[Matthew Arnold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-arnold/)

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