| 65 Famous Quotes by Matthew Arnold
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“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.”
Light Quotes |
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“All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.”
Miracles Quotes |
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“The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes |
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“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.”
Self-knowledge Quotes |
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“This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
Society Quotes |
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“Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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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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“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Is it 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?”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.”
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“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things”
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“Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Matthew Arnold Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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