More from Matthew Arnold

  1. The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
  2. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle …
  3. 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 ha…
  4. For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea i…
  5. Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
  6. Eutrapelia. 'A happy and gracious flexibility,' Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety…
  7. 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 Wi…
  8. English civilization - the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society-that is…

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