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Danh ngôn của Matthew Arnold (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Journalism is literature in a hurry.
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.