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Matthew Arnold
English
Poet
About the author
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,
English
Poet
#Thought
#Light
#Sun
#Spring
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,
English
Poet
#Love
#Liberty
#Man
#Light
#Instinct
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Heaven
#Waiting
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Practice
#Knowledge
#Gifts
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Men
#Truth
#Dying
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Being
#Sense
#Happiness
#Proof
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Religion
#Morality
#Meaning
#Emotion
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Light
#Perfection
#Sweetness
#Pursuit
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,
English
Poet
#Miracles
#Mind
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Forget
#Will
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Dream
#Despair
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Life
#Concern
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Love
#Study
#Culture
#Perfection
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#World
#Thought
#Culture
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,
English
Poet
#Man
#Power
#Creation
#Literature
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#France
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Spiritual
#Greatness
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Play
#Man
#Mind
#Control
#Nature
#Wind
#Sons
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Home
#Beliefs
#Names
#Causes
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Age
#Common sense
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Literature
#Journalism
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Character
#Culture
#Perfection
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,
English
Poet
#Society
#America
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Saying
#Poetry
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Life
#Truth
#Criticism
#Poetry
#Beauty
#Laws
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Misery
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet
#Patience
#Despair
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,
English
Poet
#Death
#Friends
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Matthew Arnold,
English
Poet