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# Matthew Arnold

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

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Matthew Arnold was a critic from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for *Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism*.

## Quick Facts About Matthew Arnold

Born December 24, 1822

Died April 15, 1888

Nationality United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Profession Critic

Notable works Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism

Known for The Scholar-Gypsy, Thyrsis, To Marguerite: Continued, Tristram and Iseult, On Translating Homer

Spouse Frances Lucy Wightman

## About Matthew Arnold

He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to literary professor Tom Arnold and novelist William Delafield Arnold. He was known as a sage writer who warned readers about social problems. For thirty‑five years he inspected schools and advocated for state‑run secondary education.

## Awards & Honors

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Newdigate Prize

##  Quotes by Matthew Arnold · Page 7

> [For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/for-the-creation-of-a-masterwork-of-literature-two-powers-must-concur/)

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> [And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/and-thou-who-didst-the-stars-and-sunbeams-know-self-schooled-self/)

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> [The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light… He who works for sweetness and light united, works to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-pursuit-of-perfection-then-is-the-pursuit-of-sweetness-and-light-2/)

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> [Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/unquiet-souls-in-the-dark-fermentation-of-earth-in-the-never-idle/)

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> [I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/i-am-bound-by-my-own-definition-of-criticism-a-disinterested/)

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> [Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/weep-bitterly-over-the-dead-for-he-is-worthy-and-then-comfort-thyself/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/truth-illuminates-and-gives-joy-and-it-is-by-the-bond-of-joy-not-of/)

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> [Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/sand-strewn-caverns-cool-and-deep-where-the-winds-are-all-asleep/)

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[Caverns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caverns/)

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> [No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/no-no-the-energy-of-life-may-be-kept-on-after-the-grave-but-not-begun/)

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> [Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/most-men-eddy-about-here-and-there-eat-and-drink-chatter-and-love-and/)

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> [The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-need-of-expansion-is-as-genuine-an-instinct-in-man-as-the-need-in/)

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> [The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-love-of-science-and-the-energy-and-honesty-in-the-pursuit-of/)

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> [Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/physician-of-the-iron-age-goethe-has-done-his-pilgrimage-he-took-the/)

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> [Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/indeed-there-can-be-no-more-useful-help-for-discovering-what-poetry/)

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> [Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/oxus-forgetting-the-bright-speed-he-had-in-his-high-mountain-cradle/)

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> [Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/good-poetry-does-undoubtedly-tend-to-form-the-soul-and-character-it/)

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> [Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/without-poetry-our-science-will-appear-incomplete-and-most-of-what/)

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> [“Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/come-to-me-in-my-dreams-and-then-by-day-i-shall-be-well-again-for-so/)

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[Dream](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dream/)

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> [And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/and-amongst-us-one-who-most-has-suffer-d-takes-dejectedly-his-seat/)

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[Intellectual](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intellectual/)

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> [Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/nor-bring-to-see-me-cease-to-live-some-doctor-full-of-phrase-and-fame/)

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> [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/)

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> [All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/all-knowledge-is-interesting-to-a-wise-man-and-the-knowledge-of/)

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[Happiness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happiness/)

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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/)

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> [Oxford whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/oxford-whispering-from-her-towers-the-last-enchantments-of-the-middle/)

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> [One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/one-must-i-think-be-struck-more-and-more-the-longer-one-lives-to-find/)

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> [The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-uppermost-idea-with-hellenism-is-to-see-things-as-they-really-are/)

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> [The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-arnold/the-working-class-is-now-issuing-from-its-hiding-place-to-assert-an/)

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## Matthew Arnold by topic

[Men (42)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/men/matthew-arnold/) [Life (36)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/matthew-arnold/) [World (29)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/matthew-arnold/) [Love (26)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/matthew-arnold/) [Poetry (22)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/matthew-arnold/) [Light (20)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/light/matthew-arnold/) [Inspirational (20)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/matthew-arnold/) [Religion (19)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/religion/matthew-arnold/) [Culture (18)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/matthew-arnold/) [Nature (17)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature/matthew-arnold/) [Soul (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/soul/matthew-arnold/) [Mind (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mind/matthew-arnold/) [Heart (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heart/matthew-arnold/) [Science (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/matthew-arnold/) [Time (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/matthew-arnold/) [Dream (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dream/matthew-arnold/) [Truth (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/truth/matthew-arnold/) [Ideas (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/matthew-arnold/) [Class (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class/matthew-arnold/)

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