11 Quotes By Matthew Arnold

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold on age

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

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

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold on knowledge

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold on men

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold on patience

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

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold on poetry

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

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold on sad

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold on culture