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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 nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

  Matthew Arnold

  Children, Nice, Infatuation

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “Complete Prose Works: English literature and Irish politics”

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• The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

  Matthew Arnold

  Found, Best Poetry, Sustaining

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

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• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Justice, Diversity

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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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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• When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Eye, Taught Us

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mean, Different, Consciousness

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing can do away with this ineffaceable difference. The Greek quarrel with the body and its desires is, that they hinder right thinking; the Hebrew quarrel with them is, that they hinder right acting.

  Matthew Arnold

  Thinking, Ideas, Differences

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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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• The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, Leaving, Warning

  Matthew Arnold (1964). “Matthew Arnold's essays in criticism: first and second series”

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