Matthew Arnold quotes

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic, renowned for his lyrical poetry and essays on social issues. His works reflect concerns about the spiritual and social changes of Victorian society. He influenced modern criticism and continues to be studied for his insights into literature and culture. Here are 235 of his quotes:

Journalism is literature in a hurry. (Matthew Arnold)
The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next. View quote
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. View quote
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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. View quote
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. View quote
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. View quote
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. View quote
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Conduct is three-fourths of life and its largest concern. View quote
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment. View quote
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. View quote
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Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said. (Matthew Arnold)
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. View quote
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The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. View quote
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Let the long contention cease; Geese are swans, and swans are geese. View quote
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And we forget because we must and not because we will. View quote
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The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. View quote
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. View quote
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The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. View quote
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in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. View quote
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. View quote
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Know, man hath all which nature hath, but more, and in that more lie all his hopes of good. (Matthew Arnold)
Time may restore us in his course Goethes sage mind and Byrons force But where will Europes latter hour Again find Wordsworths healing power. View quote
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. View quote
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Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew In quiet she reposes Ah, would that I did too. View quote
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Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light. View quote
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Matthew Arnold

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Occupation: British Poet
Born: December 24, 1822
Died: April 15, 1888
Quotes count: 235
Wikipedia: Matthew Arnold

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