Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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