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• Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Men, Complaining

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.180, Delphi Classics

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• Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.

  Matthew Arnold

  Strong, Thinking, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1892). “St. Paul and Protestantism: With Other Essays”

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• Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows
  Like the wave;
  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.
  Love tends life a little grace,
  A few sad smiles; and then,
  Both are laid in one cold place,
  In the grave.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Ebb And Flow

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• Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

  Matthew Arnold

  Passion, Dull, Saws

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Men, Names

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• Most men eddy about Here and there-eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die- Perish;-and no one asks Who or what they have been.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Men, Dust

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.442, Delphi Classics

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Done, Breasts, Psychoanalysis

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ideas, World, Today

  Matthew Arnold (1961). “Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold”, Houghton Mifflin College Division

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• The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

  Matthew Arnold

  Today, Unconscious, Strongest

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• Miracles do not happen.

  Matthew Arnold

  Miracle, Happens

  Matthew Arnold (1947). “Empédocle sur l'Etna (Empedocles on Etna)”

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Intuition

  Matthew Arnold (1873). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.293, London: Smith, Elder

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• I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Criticism, World, Definitions

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)

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• We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Tranquil

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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• Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The Field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent; hardly a shout From a few boys late at their play!

  Matthew Arnold

  Autumn, Boys, Play

  'Rugby Chapel, November 1857'

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• On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

  Matthew Arnold

  History, Foam, Bells

  Matthew Arnold (1962). “Lectures and Essays in Criticism”, p.529, University of Michigan Press

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Loyalty, Home, Names

  Essays in Criticism First Series, preface (1865)

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• Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

  Matthew Arnold

  Philosopher, Poet, Mist

  Matthew Arnold (1939). “Poetry & prose”

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, France, Great Art

  'To a Republican Friend, 1848. Continued'

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• Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

  Matthew Arnold

  Expression

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "Heinrich Heine" (1865)

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• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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• If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Heroism, Mediocrity

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• Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

  Matthew Arnold

  Intellectual, Culture, Moral

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• And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Sweet, June

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 19

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• With aching hands and bleeding feet
  We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
  We bear the burden and the heat
  Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
  Not till the hours of light return
  All we have built do we discern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Hands

  'Parting' (1852) l. 19

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