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 ARNOLDNature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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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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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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