The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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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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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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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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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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