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 ARNOLDNor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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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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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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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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