01c. 1855 ADIt is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
03c. 1855 ADPoetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
04c. 1855 ADThe nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
05c. 1855 ADIs it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun to have lived light in the spring to have loved to have thought to have done?Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
06c. 1855 ADResolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
09c. 1855 ADNature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
11c. 1855 ADBald as the bare mountain tops are bald with a baldness full of grandeur.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
13c. 1855 ADResolve to be thyself and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
14c. 1855 ADThe pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
15c. 1855 ADThis strange disease of modern life with its sick hurry its divided aims.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
16c. 1855 ADWho hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
19c. 1855 ADTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
20c. 1855 ADPoetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.Matthew Arnold / quote ↗
