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 ARNOLDOnce read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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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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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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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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