Matthew Arnold ✓

(1822–1888) critic United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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[Wikidata] British poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)... | [Wikipedia] Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother of both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer

All Matthew Arnold Quotes

• Art still has truth. Take refuge there. Art
• And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Brings
• Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me… Asking
• If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be… Benefit
• Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless… Close Relationship
• The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is… Bay
• ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee. Conquered
• Six years-six little years-six drops of time. Drops
• 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. Acquainting
• All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. All
• The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head. Brave
• Saw life steadily and saw it whole. Inspirational
• 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,… Admiration
• It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to… Enjoyed
• If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of… Able
• Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,… Age
• This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Aim
• Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery Find
• Life is not in having and getting, but in being and becoming. Becoming

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