Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
- Matthew Arnold
Nature, Mountain, Baldness, Tops
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
- Matthew Arnold
Love, Admiration, Condition, Excite
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
- Matthew Arnold
Truth, Laws, Poetic, Fixed
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
- Matthew Arnold
Lost, Names, Loyalties, Forsaken
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
- Matthew Arnold
Dream, Need, Must, Thou
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
- Matthew Arnold
Waiting, Fall, Heaven, Spark
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
- Matthew Arnold
Character, Growing, Having, Perfection
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
- Matthew Arnold
Light, Sweetness, Pursuit, Perfection
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
- Matthew Arnold
Love, Study, Properly, Perfection
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
- Matthew Arnold
Common, Sense, Next, Common Sense
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold
Emotion, Touched, Thus, Meaning Of
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
- Matthew Arnold
Communication, Literature, Journalism
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- Matthew Arnold
Mind, Play, Sweep, Wind
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
- Matthew Arnold
Patience, Sad, Too, Despair
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
- Matthew Arnold
Literature, Must, Concur, Powers
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
- Matthew Arnold
Mind, Evidence, Take, Exaggerate
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
- Matthew Arnold
Populace, Nearly, Our, Barbarians
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
Death, Go, Which, Whispering
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold
Resolve, Himself, His, Thyself
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
- Matthew Arnold
Some, Standing, Still, Port
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
- Matthew Arnold
Love, Need, Going, Upright
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
- Matthew Arnold
Practice, Use, Faithfully, Higher
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
- Matthew Arnold
Happiness, Alive, Activity, Proof
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
- Matthew Arnold
Life, Largest, Our, Conduct
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
- Matthew Arnold
Communication, Most, Mode, Simply
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold
Truth, Men, Dying, Lips
It is 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.
- Matthew Arnold
Small, Loved, Spring, Enjoyed
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
- Matthew Arnold
Great, Supreme, None, France
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
- Matthew Arnold
Thought, World, Been, Culture
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
- Matthew Arnold
Will, Because, Must, Forget
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