Quotes by Matthew Arnold

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.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Natures gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

Is it 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?

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

Resolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

This strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.

Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.

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

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.