All Matthew Arnold Quotes
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Matthew Arnold
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
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It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Matthew Arnold
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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
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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.
Matthew Arnold
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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