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• We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent; hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!

  Matthew Arnold

  Autumn, Boys, Play

  'Rugby Chapel, November 1857'

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• Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

  Matthew Arnold

  Intellectual, Culture, Moral

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• All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Wise, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.676, Delphi Classics

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• Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Culture, Apostles

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 1

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• Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

  Matthew Arnold

  Philosopher, Poet, Mist

  Matthew Arnold (1939). “Poetry & prose”

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• With aching hands and bleeding feet
  We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
  We bear the burden and the heat
  Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
  Not till the hours of light return
  All we have built do we discern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Hands

  'Parting' (1852) l. 19

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• On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

  Matthew Arnold

  History, Foam, Bells

  Matthew Arnold (1962). “Lectures and Essays in Criticism”, p.529, University of Michigan Press

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• Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

  Matthew Arnold

  Loyalty, Home, Names

  Essays in Criticism First Series, preface (1865)

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• Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Cute, Three, Concern

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) ch. 1

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• Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

  Matthew Arnold

  Expression

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

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• Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Knowledge, Toppings

  'Shakespeare' (1849)

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• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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• And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Sweet, June

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 19

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• France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, France, Great Art

  'To a Republican Friend, 1848. Continued'

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• Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Two, Solitude

  'Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann", November 1849' l. 93

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• Tis not to see the world
  As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
  And heart profoundly stirred;
  And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
  The years that are not more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Heart, Past

  Matthew Arnold (1965). “Poems”

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• Ah, love, let us be true
  To one another!

  Matthew Arnold

  Love, Being True, Certitude

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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• Style ... is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Style

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.731, Delphi Classics

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• I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Indifference, Mets

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

  Matthew Arnold

  Children, Down And, Dear

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 1

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• The interpretations of science do not give us this intimate sense of objects as the interpretations of poetry give it; they appeal to a limited faculty, and not to the whole man. It is not Linnaeus or Cavendish or Cuvier who gives us the true sense of animals, or water, or plants, who seizes their secret for us, who makes us participate in their life; it is Shakspeare [sic] … Wordsworth … Keats … Chateaubriand … Senancour.

  Matthew Arnold

  Animal, Men, Giving

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Essays in Criticism”, p.76

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• Nor bring, to see me cease to live,
  Some doctor full of phrase and fame,
  To shake his sapient head, and give
  The ill he cannot cure a name.

  Matthew Arnold

  Doctors, Names, Medicine

  'A Wish' (1867)

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• The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Yield, Brave

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.42

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• No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy Of Life, Soul, Battle

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.129

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