Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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Matthew Arnold

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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Matthew Arnold

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

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Matthew Arnold

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

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Matthew Arnold

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

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Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

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Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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Matthew Arnold