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 ARNOLDThe pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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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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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish ’twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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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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