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• Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.

  Matthew Arnold

  Crowns, Calm, Tranquility

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.945, Delphi Classics

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• Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Wall, Work

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Cruel, but composed and bland,
  Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
  So Tiberius might have sat,
  Had Tiberius been a cat.

  Matthew Arnold

  Cat, Dumb, Might

  'Poor Matthias' (1885) l. 40

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• There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

  Matthew Arnold

  Bishops, Culture, Reason

  Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.8, BookRix

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• If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

  Matthew Arnold

  Humble, Paris, Bears

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.459, Delphi Classics

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• Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Swans, Long, Geese

  'The Last Word' (1867)

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• For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.

  Matthew Arnold

  God, Science, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1970). “Literature and dogma”, Continuum

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• The kings of modern thought are dumb.

  Matthew Arnold

  Kings, Dumb, Modern

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

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• The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Heaven, Likes

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 3

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• The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Faith, Night, Wind

  "Dover Beach" l. 21 (1867)

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• Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

  Matthew Arnold

  Religious, Children, Eye

  Matthew Arnold (1877). “Poems by Matthew Arnold: Lyric, dramatic, and elegiac poems”

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• Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Trying, Christ

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.406, Delphi Classics

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• Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Art, Men, Light

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.47, Delphi Classics

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• The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Character, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy". Book by Matthew Arnold, 1869.

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• Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ancient Literature, Want, Sanity

  Matthew Arnold, Robert Henry Super (1960). “On the Classical Tradition”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

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• Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears a voice within it tell: Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well. 'Tis all perhaps which man acquires, But 'tis not what our youth desires.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Grateful, Sleep

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.141

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• Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.

  Matthew Arnold

  Son, Men, Wind

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

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• We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Chance, Ill, Ought

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems”, p.24

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• Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?

  Matthew Arnold

  Love, Heart, Speak

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

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• Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Fall, Waiting, Heaven

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 119

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• Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

  Matthew Arnold

  Patience, Despair, Neighbour

  Matthew Arnold (1853). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.212

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• Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

  Matthew Arnold

  Voice, Religion, Human Experience

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism”, p.12

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• To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Men, World

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

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• 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.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Eye, Taught Us

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

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