Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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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.
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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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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If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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