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~ Matthew Arnold Quotes ~
« on: April 30, 2015, 07:24:03 PM »
Matthew Arnold Quotes


A British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.

Here are some famous quotes by Matthew Arnold.




Journalism is literature in a hurry.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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The same heart beats in every human breast.

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We forget because we must And not because we will.

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They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

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The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

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« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2015, 07:27:25 PM »
This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.

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Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

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« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2015, 07:28:19 PM »
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

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« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2015, 07:28:46 PM »
Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

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Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

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« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2015, 07:29:42 PM »
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?