About Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. He has been characterised as a...
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.