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• Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

  Matthew Arnold

  Weed, Light, Wind

  'The Forsaken Merman' (1849) l. 35

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• The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.

  Matthew Arnold

  Gone

  'Thyrsis' (1866) l. 57

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• To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Return

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• The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.240, Delphi Classics

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• He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Perfect, Speech

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• Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Men, Cities

  'Lines written in Kensington Gardens' (1852)

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• But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Lying, Science

  Matthew Arnold, George William Erskine Russell, Thomas Burnett Smart (1904). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Ignorance, Science

  Matthew Arnold (1868). “Schools and Universities on the Continent”, p.260, Macmillan

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• All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Hate, Unhappy

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.325, Delphi Classics

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• For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

  Matthew Arnold

  Teacher, Stars, Fire

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• The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.

  Matthew Arnold

  Honesty, Science, Men

  Matthew Arnold, Thomas Burnett Smart (1903). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

  Matthew Arnold

  Eye, Age, Wreaths

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.143

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• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Self, Earth

  'Shakespeare' (1849)

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• Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

  Matthew Arnold

  Rose, Yew, Quiet

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

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• The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, Leaving, Warning

  Matthew Arnold (1964). “Matthew Arnold's essays in criticism: first and second series”

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• But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Wish, Poor

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.180

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• Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Nature, Writing, Hands

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Fate, Air

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.26

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• The same heart beats in every human breast.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Beats, Breasts

  Matthew Arnold (1856). “Poems”, p.319

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• Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Heart, Garden

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Mind, Mock

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.15

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• One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Ordinary, World

  Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini (1993). “Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings”, p.91, Cambridge University Press

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• Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Men, Doe

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

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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

  Law, Criticism, Poetic

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “English Literature and Irish Politics”, p.163, University of Michigan Press

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