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 ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Art still has truth. Take refuge there.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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