Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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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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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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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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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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