Matthew Arnold

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#baldness #bare #full #grandeur #mountain

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#despair #dream #must #need #thou

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#conduct #largest #life #our #three-fourths

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#described #love #perfection #properly #study

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#best #culture #know #said #thought

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

#creation #enough #literature #man #moment

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

#enjoyed #light #lived #loved #small

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#causes #forsaken #home #impossible #lost

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#control #equal #her #man #mind

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

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just