Matthew Arnold
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"Matthew Arnold" was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold (academic)/Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writing/sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.

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

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

And we forget because we must And not because we will.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Is 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?

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

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.