Matthew Arnold

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“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flights,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

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“Society may be imagined so uniform that one education shall be suitable for all its members; we have not a society of that kind, nor has any European country.”

― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)