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Matthew Arnold Quotes - Page 10

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O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!

Strong, Soul, Vain

Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.89, Courier Corporation

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Self, Political, Ordinary

Matthew Arnold (1875). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.113

Where great whales come sailing by, Sail and sail, with unshut eye, Round the world for ever and aye.

Eye, Whales, Sailing

'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 43

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Righteousness, Eternal

1873 Literature and Dogma, ch.8.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Sweet, Jesus, Secret

'Literature and Dogma' (1873) ch. 12

When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Life, Eye, Taught Us

Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.

Inspiration, Reading, Israel

Matthew Arnold (1968). “Complete Prose Works: Dissent and dogma”

But thou, my son, study to make prevail One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.

Truth, Son, Hue

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.381, Delphi Classics

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Found, Best Poetry, Sustaining

Essays in Criticism Second Series, "The Study of Poetry" (1888)

The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

Science, Letters, Tails

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.686, Delphi Classics

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!

Life, Heart, Men

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

Life, Saws, Whole Life

Lines on Sophocles in 'To a Friend' (1849)

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

Hate, Passion, Men

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Children, Nice, Infatuation

Matthew Arnold (1973). “Complete Prose Works: English literature and Irish politics”

Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

Spiritual, Men, Law

Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Class, Justice, Diversity

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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