Matthew Arnold Quotes

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• Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Becoming, Life Is

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• It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Important, Able

  "Democracy" (1861)

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• Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Wealth, Middle

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dance, History, Art And Culture

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) preface

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• If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Together, World

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• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Common Sense

  God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma (1875)

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

  Matthew Arnold

  Solitude, Mind, Secrecy

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• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Impressive, Poetry Is

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics

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• One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

  Matthew Arnold

  Age, Common, Youth

  'Youth's Agitations' (1852)

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• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

  Matthew Arnold

  Believe, Yesterday, Today

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• Not deep the poet sees, but wide.

  Matthew Arnold

  Poet, Wide

  'Resignation' (1849) l. 214

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold, (Ch. I), 1869.

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• Greatness is a spiritual condition.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Greatness, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.14, BookRix

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• They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

  Matthew Arnold

  Fate, Chance

  'Resignation' (1849) l. 247

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• Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, People, Giving

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Truth, Men

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 656

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• 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

  Miracle, Mind, Impossible

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.128

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• What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.

  Matthew Arnold

  Independent, Race, Feelings

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.

  Matthew Arnold

  England, Newspapers, Persons

  Matthew Arnold (1912). “Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold”

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• Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

  Matthew Arnold

  World, Force, Ready

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Spiritual, Greatness

  Matthew Arnold, J. Dover Wilson (1932). “Culture and Anarchy: Landmarks in the History of Education”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Writing, Men, Two

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)

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