Matthew Arnold Quotes - 9quotes.com

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Written by Matthew Arnold
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.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Written by Matthew Arnold
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Written by Matthew Arnold
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Written by Matthew Arnold
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.
Written by Matthew Arnold
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.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Written by Matthew Arnold
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Written by Matthew Arnold
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.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Written by Matthew Arnold
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Written by Matthew Arnold
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Written by Matthew Arnold
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Written by Matthew Arnold
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Written by Matthew Arnold
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.
Written by Matthew Arnold
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Written by Matthew Arnold

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