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 ARNOLDFor the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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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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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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