Friday, December 24, 2010

Meandering in the stacks . . .

Today is the birthday of Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888), poet and literary critic. He is best known for his poem, Dover Beach.

"Art still has truth. Take refuge there."
- Matthew Arnold

"We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know."
- Matthew Arnold

"One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it."
- Matthew Arnold

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

"The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
- Matthew Arnold

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."
- Matthew Arnold

“The beginning is always today.”
- Matthew Arnold

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