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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

~Matthew Arnold

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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

~Matthew Arnold

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Journalism is literature in a hurry.

~Matthew Arnold

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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

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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.

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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

~Matthew Arnold

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: December 24th, 1822

Died: April 15th, 1888

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