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• Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Home, Sea

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 886

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

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  Voice, Leaving, Warning

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

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

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  Wise, Shelter, Leisure

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

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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?

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  Time, Healing, Europe

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

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

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  Light, Mind, Mock

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

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

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  Yellow, Looks, Muse

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

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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.

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  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 same heart beats in every human breast.

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  Heart, Beats, Breasts

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

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• Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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  Law, Criticism, Poetic

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “English Literature and Irish Politics”, p.163, University of Michigan Press

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

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  Truth, Son, Hue

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

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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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• Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

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  Crowns, Calm, Tranquility

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.945, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Race, Iron, Suffering

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

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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 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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• Cruel, but composed and bland,
  Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
  So Tiberius might have sat,
  Had Tiberius been a cat.

  Matthew Arnold

  Cat, Dumb, Might

  'Poor Matthias' (1885) l. 40

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

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  Found, Best Poetry, Sustaining

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

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