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 of both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. He has been characterised as a...
More quotations from Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
More quotations tagged with “religion”
Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.
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