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Matthew Arnold Quotes

Matthew Arnold quotes about mind

English Poet December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888

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For what can give a finer example of that frankness and manly self- confidence which our great public schools, and none of them so much as Eton, are supposed to inspire, of that buoyant ease in holding up one's head, speaking out what is in one's mind, and flinging off all sheepishness and awkwardness, than to see an Eton assistant-master offering in fact himself as evidence that to combine boarding-house- keeping with teaching is a good thing, and his brother as evidence that to train and... Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold quote: "Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man..."
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. Matthew Arnold
But the modern critic not only permits a false practice: he absolutely prescribes false aims." A true allegory of the state of one's mind in a representative history," the poet is told, "is perhaps the highest thing that one can attempt in the way of poetry. Matthew Arnold
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. Matthew Arnold

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