Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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