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“ ”How generally, with how many of us, are the main concerns of life limited to these two: the concern for making money, and the concern for saving our souls!
About Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (December 24 1822 – April 15 1888) was an English poet, essayist and cultural critic. He also pursued a career as an inspector of schools.
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Additional quotes by Matthew Arnold
Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?
The State is of the religion of all its citizens without the fanaticism of any of them.
Aristocracies, those children of the established fact, are for epochs of concentration. In epochs of expansion, epochs such as that in which we now live, epochs when always the warning voice is again heard: <i>Now is the judgment of this world</i>, — in such epochs aristocracies with their natural clinging to the established fact, their want of sense for the flux of things, for the inevitable transitoriness of all human institutions, are bewildered and helpless.