Matthew Arnold (Matthew) was an English Victorian Era poet and critic. He was educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Mr. Arnold has a lucid style and is abreast of the thought of his age. He may be said in his own words to wander "between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born."
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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. Go to Quote / Comment
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Go to Quote / Comment
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle. Go to Quote / Comment
The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. Go to Quote / Comment
But—if you cannot give us ease— Last of the race of them who grieve... Go to Quote / Comment