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Matthew Arnold (Writer)

It is 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.
— Matthew Arnold love
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold beautiful
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
— Matthew Arnold wit
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
— Matthew Arnold love
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
— Matthew Arnold faith
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
— Matthew Arnold thinking
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
— Matthew Arnold world
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
— Matthew Arnold literature
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
— Matthew Arnold light
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold self
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
— Matthew Arnold culture
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
— Matthew Arnold death
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
— Matthew Arnold heaven
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
— Matthew Arnold belief
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
— Matthew Arnold mind
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
— Matthew Arnold despair
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
— Matthew Arnold happiness
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
— Matthew Arnold life
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
— Matthew Arnold mind
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
— Matthew Arnold possible
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.
— Matthew Arnold power
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.
— Matthew Arnold love
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold men
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
— Matthew Arnold society
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
— Matthew Arnold love

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