Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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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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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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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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