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English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)

...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Matthew Arnold »
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. Matthew Arnold »
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Matthew Arnold »
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 »
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle. Matthew Arnold »
Resolve to be thyself and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold »
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Matthew Arnold »
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. Matthew Arnold »
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Matthew Arnold »
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all. Matthew Arnold »

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