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

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Return

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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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• What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

  Matthew Arnold

  Wise, Shelter, Leisure

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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  Patience, Despair, Neighbour

  Matthew Arnold (1853). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.212

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• The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Ignorance, Science

  Matthew Arnold (1868). “Schools and Universities on the Continent”, p.260, Macmillan

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• All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

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  Peace, Hate, Unhappy

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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• We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

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  God, Fate, Air

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.26

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• The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.

  Matthew Arnold

  Honesty, Science, Men

  Matthew Arnold, Thomas Burnett Smart (1903). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

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  Mean, Different, Consciousness

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.12

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• Grey time-worn marbles Hold the pure Muses. In their cool gallery, By yellow Tiber, They still look fair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Yellow, Looks, Muse

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.179, Delphi Classics

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• But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Son, Hue

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

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• There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

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  Bishops, Culture, Reason

  Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.8, BookRix

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• The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Heaven, Likes

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 3

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• The same heart beats in every human breast.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Beats, Breasts

  Matthew Arnold (1856). “Poems”, p.319

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• Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Mind, Mock

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.15

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• Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Healing, Europe

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

  Matthew Arnold

  Break, Musk, Carnations

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 61

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• And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sight, Soul, Hustle

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• Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Nature, Writing, Hands

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.

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  Civilization, Body, Interest

  Matthew Arnold, Gillian Sutherland (1973). “Matthew Arnold on education”, Penguin Books

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• Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

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  Dream, Men, Doe

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

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• The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

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  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.

  Matthew Arnold

  Race, Iron, Suffering

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Age, Wreaths

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.143

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