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• Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mind, Quality, Prejudice

  "Irish Essays. A Speech at Eton" by Matthew Arnold, 1882.

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• The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Letters, Tails

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

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• The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

  Matthew Arnold

  Today, Unconscious, Strongest

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• The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;- on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Moon, Light

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Heroism, Mediocrity

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• Now, the whole world hears
  Or shall hear,--surely shall hear, at the last,
  Though men delay, and doubt, and faint, and fail,--
  That promise faithful:--"Fear not, little flock!
  It is your Father's will and joy, to give
  To you, the Kingdom"!

  Matthew Arnold

  Father, Men, Giving

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• Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

  Matthew Arnold

  Today, Tomorrow, Loses

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 171

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• God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, School, Church

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• Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Men, Complaining

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.180, Delphi Classics

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• Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Thinking, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1892). “St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays”

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• Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

  Matthew Arnold

  Passion, Dull, Saws

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
  Like the wave;
  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
  Love tends life a little grace,
  A few sad smiles; and then,
  Both are laid in one cold place,
  In the grave.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Ebb And Flow

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• The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Men, Names

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• For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, World, Today

  Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

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• Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.

  Matthew Arnold

  Done, Breasts, Psychoanalysis

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spring, Heart, Emotion

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• The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Character, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy". Book by Matthew Arnold, 1869.

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• Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

  Matthew Arnold

  Two, World, Born

  "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" l. 85 (1855)

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• Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sea, Sick, Asking

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.163, Delphi Classics

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• Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

  Matthew Arnold

  Self, Political, Ordinary

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.113

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• Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Children, Light

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "Heinrich Heine" (1865)

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• Miracles do not happen.

  Matthew Arnold

  Miracle, Happens

  Matthew Arnold (1947). “Empédocle sur l'Etna (Empedocles on Etna)”

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Intuition

  Matthew Arnold (1873). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.293, London: Smith, Elder

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• I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Criticism, World, Definitions

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

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• Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Tranquil

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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