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“One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.”

Matthew Arnold book Culture and Anarchy

Preface, 1st Ed
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

“So, loath to suffer mute.
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.”

Matthew Arnold book Empedocles on Etna

Act I, sc. ii
Empedocles on Etna (1852)

“Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.”

Matthew Arnold book Culture and Anarchy

Source: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light

“The Celts certainly have it in a wonderful measure.”

Matthew Arnold

Referring to style, in On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867), Pt. 6

“Therefore to thee it was given
Many to save with thyself;
And, at the end of thy day,
O faithful shepherd! to come,
Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.”

Matthew Arnold

St. 9
Rugby Chapel (1867)

“What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.”

Matthew Arnold

" Civilization in the United States http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=ArnCivi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all" (1888)

“Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall.”

Matthew Arnold The Last Word

St. 4
The Last Word (1867)

“Below the surface stream, shallow and light,
Of what we say and feel — below the stream,
As light, of what we think we feel, there flows
With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep,
The central stream of what we feel indeed.”

Matthew Arnold

"St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870)

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.”

Matthew Arnold book Culture and Anarchy

Introduction
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

“The World in which we live and move
Outlasts aversion, outlasts love:
Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,
Remorse, grief, joy.”

Matthew Arnold

Source: Resignation (1849), l. 215-218

“And long we try in vain to speak and act
Our hidden self, and what we say and do
Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!”

Matthew Arnold

"The Buried Life" (1852), st. 6

“And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.”

Matthew Arnold

Source: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1

“To thee only God granted
A heart ever new:
To all always open;
To all always true.”

Matthew Arnold Switzerland

"Switzerland", IV. "Parting" (1853)

“Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.”

Matthew Arnold

Byron
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)

“I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.”

Matthew Arnold

Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough (ca. 6 December 1847)
Alternate spelling used

“The translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author: — that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, that he is eminently noble.”

Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer

On Translating Homer (1861)

“Are ye too changed, ye hills?
See, ’tis no foot of unfamiliar men
Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays!
Here came I often, often, in old days;
Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then.”

Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St. 1
Thyrsis (1866)

“Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.”

Matthew Arnold

" Poor Matthias http://www.flippyscatpage.com/frompoormatthias.html" (1867)