"One thing only has been lent to youth……" — Matthew Arnold

"One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent."

— Matthew Arnold

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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold has 144 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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 -…
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…
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…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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