Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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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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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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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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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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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