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• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Self, Earth

  'Shakespeare' (1849)

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• If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Humble, Paris, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.459, Delphi Classics

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• Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

  Matthew Arnold

  Swans, Long, Geese

  'The Last Word' (1867)

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• Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Children, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1877). “Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems”

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• Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Grateful, Sleep

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.141

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• Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Class, Passionate

  'Essays in Criticism' First Series (1865) preface

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• It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inward, Genius, Done

  1867 'On the Study of Celtic Literature'

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• What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

  Matthew Arnold

  Two, Interesting, Elements

  Matthew Arnold (2007). “Civilization in the United States”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Weed, Light, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Soul, Vain

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspiration, Reading, Israel

  Matthew Arnold (1968). “Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma”

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• The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, Consciousness, Spontaneity

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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• Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

  Matthew Arnold

  Feelings, Ethics, Lit

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.21

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• To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Return

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