All Matthew Arnold Quotes
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.
Matthew Arnold
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The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
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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.
Matthew Arnold
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold
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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
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Matthew Arnold
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Matthew Arnold
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