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(1853) l. 129
    [Arnold]

15
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we,
Light half-believers in our casual creeds…
Who hesitate and falter life away,
And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day—
Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?
    "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) l. 171
    [Arnold]

16
Still nursing the unconquerable hope,
Still clutching the inviolable shade.
    "The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) l. 211
    [Arnold]

17
Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
    "Shakespeare" (1849)
    [Arnold]

18
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
    "Sohrab and Rustum" (1853) l. 656
    [Arnold]

19
And that sweet City with her dreaming spires.

of Oxford
    "Thyrsis" (1866) l. 19
    [Arnold]

20
The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
    "Thyrsis" (1866) l. 57
    [Arnold]

21
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole:
The mellow glory of the Attic stage;
Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.

of Sophocles
    "To a Friend" (1849)
    [Arnold]

22
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
    "To a Republican Friend—Continued" (1849)
    [Arnold]

23
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea.
    "To Marguerite—Continued" (1852) l. 24
    [Arnold]

24 The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light…He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.
    Culture and Anarchy (1869) ch. 1
    [Arnold]

25 When I want to distinguish clearly the aristocratic class from the Philistines proper, or middle class, [I] name the former, in my own mind the Barbarians.
    Culture and Anarchy (1869) ch. 3
    [Arnold]

26 Whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age…Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
of Oxford
    Essays in Criticism First Series (1865) preface.
    [Arnold]

27 In poetry, no less than in life, he is "a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain".
    Essays in Criticism Second Series (1888) "Shelley" (quoting from his own essay on Byron in the same work)
    [Arnold]

28 Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
    Essays in Criticism Second Series (1888) "Wordsworth"
    [Arnold]

29 I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
    letter, 12 February 1853
    [Arnold]

30 The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
    Literature and Dogma (1873) ch. 1
    [Arnold]

31 Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
    G. W. E. Russell Collections and Recollections (1898) ch. 13
    [Arnold]
     
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Arnold, Samuel James
    1 England, home and beauty.
    "The Death of Nelson" (1811 song)
     
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Arnold, Thomas 1795–1842
    1 My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
on appointment to the Headmastership of Rugby School
    letter to Revd John Tucker, 2 March 1828

2 As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian rock.
    from an unpublished letter written before 1828
    [Arnold]
     
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Artsimovich, L. A. 1909–73
    1 The joke definition according to which "Science is the best way of satisfying the curiosity of individuals at government expense" is more or less correct.
    in Novy Mir January 1967
     
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Ascham, Roger 1515–68
    1 I said…how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
    The Schoolmaster (1570) preface

2 There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
    The Schoolmaster (1570) bk. 1
    [Ascham]
     
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Ashford, Daisy 1881–1972
    1 Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42.
    The Young Visiters (1919) ch. 1

2 Bernard always had a few