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• Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mind, Quality, Prejudice

  "Irish Essays. A Speech at Eton" by Matthew Arnold, 1882.

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• He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Tears, Lap

  Lines on Wordsworth in 'Memorial Verses, April 1850' l. 47

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• In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

  Matthew Arnold

  Home, Lost Ones, Class

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.378

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• Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.

  Matthew Arnold

  Race, Iron, Suffering

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mean, Different, Consciousness

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.12

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• Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy, Genius, May

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• That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, America, England

  A Word About America (1882)

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Heaven

  1853 Poems: A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171-4.

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• Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Blood, Class, Passionate

  'Essays in Criticism' First Series (1865) preface

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• Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Years, Littles

  Matthew Arnold (1857). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.56

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• ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee.

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Thee

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 80

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• The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spring, Heart, Emotion

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• Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again. For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Night, Pay

  'Faded Leaves' (1855) no. 5 (first published, 1852, as 'Longing')

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• Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sea, Sick, Asking

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.163, Delphi Classics

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• We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

  Matthew Arnold

  Truth, Mind, Doctrine

  Matthew Arnold (1912). “Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold”

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• All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
  All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow,
  Find their sole voice in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Success, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1854). “Poems”, p.226

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• Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

  Matthew Arnold

  Two, World, Born

  "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" l. 85 (1855)

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• Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

  Matthew Arnold

  Expression, Class, Mind

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “English Literature and Irish Politics”, p.168, University of Michigan Press

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• Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls
  ...The prophetic soul,
  Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1968). “Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Dissent and dogma”

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• It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inward, Genius, Done

  1867 'On the Study of Celtic Literature'

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• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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• The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Joy, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.30

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• What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

  Matthew Arnold

  Two, Interesting, Elements

  Matthew Arnold (2007). “Civilization in the United States”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd, Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been fulfill'd; For whom each year we see Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new; Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Disappointment, New Beginnings, Light

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sun, Aging, Enjoyed

  'Empedocles on Etna' (1852) act 1, sc. 2, l. 397

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