Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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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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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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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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