"The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly……" — Matthew Arnold
"The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion."
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Matthew Arnold
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144 Quotes by Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold has 144 quotes on this site.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and…
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in…
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More Anglo Quotes
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one of 73 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to…
— James G. Blaine
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America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities…
— Unknown Author
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Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?
— Unknown Author
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The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold…
— Edward James Olmos
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Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these…
— John Fowles
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This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook…
— Patricia Highsmith
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The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of…
— Alex Jones
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist…
— Cherrie Moraga
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Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize…
— Cecil Rhodes
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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