"When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We……" — Matthew Arnold
"When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life."
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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 Bow Quotes
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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
— Margaret Atwood
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18…
— Orlando Bloom
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks…
— Eric Clapton
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About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
— Jens Jensen
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
— William Shakespeare
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When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them…
— Saadi
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I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe…
— Rick Warren
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