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Matthew Arnold Quotes

«When we first saw the news of the bombing we didn't know he was out there [in Bali],»
«Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.»
«You will be out of the lives of free people everywhere. Your face will be off the coins and with that, your arrogant, undue influence. Everywhere. ... Everywhere. .. Every. ...»
«If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.»
«All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: biblical
«But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: reasonableness
«Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: preferment
«Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.»
«Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.»
«Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.»

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