Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLet the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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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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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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