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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...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Go to Quote / Comment
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. 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
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Go to Quote / Comment
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. Go to Quote / Comment