361 Quotes by Matthew Arnold

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    Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man taken by himself.

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    Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

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    Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

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    Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

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    Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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