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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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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.


— Matthew Arnold


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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.


— Matthew Arnold


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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.


— Matthew Arnold


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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.


— 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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.


— Matthew Arnold


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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.


— Matthew Arnold


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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.


— Matthew Arnold


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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.


— Matthew Arnold


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Did you know about Matthew Arnold?

He was the son of Thomas Arnold the famed headmaster of Rugby School and brother to both Tom Arnold literary professor and William Delafield Arnold novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

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