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 ARNOLDI 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.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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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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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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