They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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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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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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