Quote by Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. - Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. – Matthew Arnold

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Beauty
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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. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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Growth
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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? – Sitting Bull

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men

There is no better proof of a mans being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. – Honore de Balzac

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Men

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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