English poet & critic (1822-1888)
Business could not make dull, nor passion wild;
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"To a Friend"
I knew the mass of men conceal'd
Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
They would by other men be met
With blank indifference.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"The Buried Life"
But thou, my son, study to make prevail
One colour in thy life, the hue of truth.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Merope
The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Literature and Dogma
Calm soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a peace of thine,
Man did not make, and cannot mar.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"Lines Written in Kensington Gardens"
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture and Anarchy
The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture and Anarchy
Yes: in the sea of life enisl'd,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis"
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control,
His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
"Resignation"