The 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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThey… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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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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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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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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Who hesitate and falter life away, and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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