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 ARNOLDArt still has truth. Take refuge there.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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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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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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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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