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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold
Death
Friends
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Matthew Arnold
Despair
Patience
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
Misery
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold
Beauty
Life
Truth
Poetry
Criticism
Laws
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
Matthew Arnold
Poetry
Saying
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
Society
America
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
Matthew Arnold
Character
Culture
Perfection
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold
Journalism
Literature
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Matthew Arnold
Age
Common sense
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold
Home
Beliefs
Causes
Names
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Matthew Arnold
Nature
Control
Man
Mind
Play
Sons
Wind
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
Matthew Arnold
Greatness
Spiritual
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Matthew Arnold
France
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Matthew Arnold
Power
Creation
Literature
Man
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Matthew Arnold
Thought
Culture
World