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One Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
- Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so…
- Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature…
- At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men…
- He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and…
- One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as…
- Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust,…
- The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
- One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
- Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,…
- Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.
- 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…
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