Best Quotes by Matthew Arnold (Top 10)

  1. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
  2. Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
  3. But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us"”to know Whence our lives come and where they go.
  4. The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
  5. If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
  6. Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
  7. Journalism is literature in a hurry.
  8. Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
  9. And we forget because we must and not because we will.
  10. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

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