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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Matthew Arnold |
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Quotes By author - Starting with M - Matthew Arnold
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There are 25 quotes for the author Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
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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.
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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It is so small a think to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
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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.
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
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