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• We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Mind, Doctrine

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

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• Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Years, Littles

  Matthew Arnold (1857). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.56

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• Truth illuminates and gives joy; and it is by the bond of joy, not of pleasure, that men's spirits are indissolubly held.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Men, Giving

  Matthew Arnold (1865). “Essays in Criticism”, p.251

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• Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sun, Aging, Enjoyed

  'Empedocles on Etna' (1852) act 1, sc. 2, l. 397

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• Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, Religion, Human Experience

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.12

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• Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls
  ...The prophetic soul,
  Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1968). “Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma”

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• To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Men, World

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

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• I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

  Matthew Arnold

  Culture, Believer

  Culture and Anarchy introduction (1869)

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• That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, America, England

  A Word About America (1882)

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• Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy, Genius, May

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• Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Fall, Waiting, Heaven

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 119

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• Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

  Matthew Arnold

  Son, Men, Wind

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

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• On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out to church from Chamberry, Dight with mantles gay, But else it is a lonely time Round the Church of Brou.

  Matthew Arnold

  Summer, Lonely, Gay

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Men, Light

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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• For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1970). “Literature and dogma”, Continuum

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men, And falsehood, while I lived, was far from mine.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Dying, Lips

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

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• But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Secret

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) ch. 12

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• The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

  Matthew Arnold

  Righteousness, Eternal

  1873 Literature and Dogma, ch.8.

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• Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Passion, Light, Culture

  1873 Literature and Dogma, preface.

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• He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Perfect, Speech

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• The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

  Matthew Arnold

  Gone

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 57

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• For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teacher, Stars, Fire

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• He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Tears, Lap

  Lines on Wordsworth in 'Memorial Verses, April 1850' l. 47

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• Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

  Matthew Arnold

  Rose, Yew, Quiet

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

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• We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Chance, Ill, Ought

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.24

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