Matthew Arnold
12 quotations
Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.