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• Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Trying, Christ

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.406, Delphi Classics

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• But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Wish, Poor

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.180

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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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• 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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• Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, Morality, Certain

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.11

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• All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
  All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
  Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Success, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1854). “Poems”, p.226

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• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Perfection, Reason

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1

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• ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Thee

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 80

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• Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Night, Pay

  'Faded Leaves' (1855) no. 5 (first published, 1852, as 'Longing')

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• And each day brings it's pretty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fll And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dust, Soul, Each Day

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• The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teaching, Discipline, May

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.137

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hope, Impossible, Standing Alone

  'A Summer Night' l. 68

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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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• Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Philosophy, Science And Religion, Incomplete

  'Essays in Criticism' Second Series (1888) 'The Study of Poetry'

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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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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Faith, Night, Wind

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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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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• 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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• 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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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Death, Dark, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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• Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Expression, Class, Mind

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “English Literature and Irish Politics”, p.168, University of Michigan Press

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• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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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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• Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

  Matthew Arnold

  Air, Whispering, Rooms

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.429, Delphi Classics

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