Matthew Arnold Quotes

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
• Journalism is literature in a hurry.
• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
• And we forget because we must and not because we will.
• Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a…
• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
• Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the…
• Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the…
• Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
• Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world
• Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
• The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something…
• All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
• Greatness is a spiritual condition.
• Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun...

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