Matthew Arnold Short Quotes

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Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

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Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.

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Deny the facts altogether, I think, he hardly can.

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How fair a lot to fill
Is left to each man still.

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The great apostle of the Philistines, Lord Macaulay

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The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

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This iron time
Of doubt, disputes, distractions, fears.

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Ere the parting hour go by,
Quick, thy tablets, Memory!

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Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

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The Celts certainly have it [style] in a wonderful measure.

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Creep into thy narrow bed,
Creep, and let no more be said!

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

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The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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

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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.

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What shelter to grow ripe is ours?
What leisure to grow wise?

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Such a price
The Gods exact for song;
To become what we sing.

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The American Philistine was a livelier sort of Philistine than ours.

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I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.

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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control,
His sad lucidity of soul.

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Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

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And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.

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Bald as the bare mountaintops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

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Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from chance, have conquered fate.

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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.

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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

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Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

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Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece,
Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease.

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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are...

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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.

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