Matthew Arnold Quotes and Quotations
The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.
We forget because we must And not because we will.
Nature, with equal mind, sees all her sons at play, sees man control the wind, the wind sweep man away.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
The same heart beats in every human breast.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.