Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

- Matthew Arnold

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

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

- 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.

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.

- Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

- Matthew Arnold

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

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

- Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

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

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

- Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

- Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

- Matthew Arnold

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